Journal Article

Income redistribution in the European Union

By Silvia Avram, Horacio Levy and Holly Sutherland

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Publication date
Published in
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies
Volume
3
Pages
pp. 1–29
Publisher
Springer
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-9012-3-22
ISSN
21939012

Summary

We explore the redistributive effects of taxes and benefits in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) using EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. As well as describing redistributive effects in aggregate, we assess and compare the effectiveness of eight individual types of policy in reducing income disparities. We derive results for the 27 members of the EU using policies in effect in 2010 and present them for each country separately as well as for the EU as a whole.

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© Avram et al.; licensee Springer. 2014

This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.

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