policies. However, due to complicated nature of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) poverty …

This paper evaluates income distributions in four European countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and Hungary) using two …

This paper aims to disentangle the driving factors behind the changes in income inequality in the Baltics since the EU … accession, distinguishing between primary income effect, discrete changes in tax-benefit policies and demographic effect … and re-weighting techniques. Decomposition of the total change in inequality showed that income and policy effects are …

tax- and contribution rules built into tax-benefit models to convert net income information into gross amounts. Using … to produce different net-to-gross ratios for different income components. We undertake a case study to illustrate the … income sources of the same individual. …

upper middle of the income distribution and the main losers were at the bottom and those close to, but not at, the very top …

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of cash social benefits on work incentives at the bottom of the income … and official OECD/EC indicators. The analysis revealed high disincentives to work at the bottom of the Lithuanian income … among low earners without eroding the minimum income protection floor. …

towards the bottom and which are likely to be mostly benefitting households at the top of the income distribution. We examine … explicit income targeting. We find that with a few exceptions the impact of tax allowances and tax credits on inequality is … targeting and/or other features of the income tax system in determining the redistributive effect. Consequently, tax concessions …

us to estimate the direct effect of tax-benefit policy changes in 2008-2014 on the income distribution, poverty and … of challenging economic problems in this period. However, this has been accompanied by reductions in household income in …

We investigate the impact of the Romanian and Czech family policy systems on the income distribution and poverty risk …