and work incentives. To this end, the study employs SOUTHMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model, for six African … progressivity of personal income tax in Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia; on the other hand, it improves … progressivity in Mozambique. However, it decreases the redistributive effect of personal income tax only in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and …

analyse tax policy reforms, including in particular pension and demographic issues. The main feature of the EDGE-M3 model lies … the greatest extent possible. In particular, it includes the richness of the tax code by means of income tax and social … insurance contribution rate functions estimated using data from the EUROMOD microsimulation model. This feature allows in …

This paper assesses causes and consequences of fiscal redistribution in Brazil. The framework proposed allows … welfare, addressing both static and dynamic implications. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first microsimulation … attempt to gauge actual fiscal policy redistribution changes over time in Brazil. The study develops an empirical methodology …

exogenous borrowing constraints, the government runs a procyclical tax and transfer policy in the neighbourhood of the … aggregate consumption and tax cost over the business cycle deliver the qualitative difference in transfer policy when the …

We show that the effectiveness of redistribution policy in stimulating the economy and improving welfare is directly … regime counteract the deflationary forces during the recession. Moreover, redistribution produces a Pareto improvement under …

of factors including the growth of income support, healthcare inflation, neoliberal tax reforms, and macroeconomic …

equity implications of national tax policy reforms is greater than ever. National fiscal policies have a significant share in … out a consistent framework for the in-depth country analyses of tax reforms using EUROMOD performed by the European …

This paper presents the main characteristics of TREMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for the Italian province of … Trento (Italy). TREMOD is based upon the EUROMOD platform microsimulation model, and its purpose is to inform local tax and … welfare policies. TREMOD is a flexible tool that allows simulation of the effects of different types of public policies on a …