Publications

by members of

European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
Wien, Austria

Working papers

2008

1. Lelkes, Orsolya, 2008. "Happiness over the life cycle: exploring age-specific preferences," MPRA Paper 7302, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
2. Luigi Siciliani, Anderson Stanciole, Rowena Jacobs, 2008. "Do waiting times reduce hospital costs?," Discussion Papers 08/02, Department of Economics, University of York. [Downloadable!]

2007

1. Herwig Immervoll, 2007. "Minimum Wages, Minimum Labour Costs and the Tax Treatment of Low-wage Employment," OECD Social Employment and Migration Working Papers 46, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. [Downloadable!]
2. Herwig Immervoll, 2007. "Minimum Wages, Minimum Labour Costs and the Tax Treatment of Low-Wage Employment," IZA Discussion Papers 2555, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
3. Olivier Bargain & Herwig Immervoll & Heikki Viitamäki, 2007. "How Tight Are Safety-Nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish Register Data," IZA Discussion Papers 3004, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
4. Francesco Figari & Herwig Immervoll & Horacio Levy & Holly Sutherland, 2007. "Inequalities within Couples : Market Incomes and the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe," SOEPpapers 74, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). [Downloadable!]
5. Francesco Figari & Herwig Immervoll & Horacio Levy & Holly Sutherland, 2007. "Inequalities Within Couples: Market Incomes and the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe," IZA Discussion Papers 3201, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
6. Lelkes, Orsolya & Benedek, Dora, 2007. "Assessment of income distribution and a hypothetical flat tax reform in Hungary," MPRA Paper 7304, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
7. Figari F & Levy H & Sutherland H, 2007. "Using The Eu-Silc For Policy Simulation: Prospects, Some Limitations And Suggestions," EUROMOD Working Papers em1/07, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
8. Stanciole, Anderson, 2007. "Health Insurance and Life Style Choices: Identifying the Ex Ante Moral Hazard," IRISS Working Paper Series 2007-10, IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD. [Downloadable!]
9. Strom Steinar & Shima Isilda & Bettio Francesca & Di Tommaso Maria Laura, 2007. "As bad as it gets: Well being deprivation of sexually exploited trafficked women," Department of Economics Working Papers 200703, University of Turin. [Downloadable!]
10. Maria Laura Di Tommaso & I. Shima & S. Strøm & F. Bettio, 2007. "As bad as it gets: well being deprivation of sexually exploited trafficked women," CHILD Working Papers wp10_07, CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY. [Downloadable!]

2006

1. Immervoll, Herwig & Levy, Horacio & Lietz, Christine & Mantovani, Daniela & O'Donoghue, Cathal & Sutherland, Holly & Verbist, Gerlinde, 2006. "Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalising Properties of Taxes and Benefits," Economics Series 184, Institute for Advanced Studies. [Downloadable!]
2. Herwig Immervoll & David Barber, 2006. "Can Parents Afford to Work? Childcare Costs, Tax-Benefit Policies and Work Incentives," IZA Discussion Papers 1932, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
3. Herwig Immervoll & Horacio Levy & José Ricardo Nogueira & Cathal O’Donoghue & Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira, 2006. "The Impact of Brazil’s Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty," IZA Discussion Papers 2114, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
4. Thai-Thanh Dang & Herwig Immervoll & Daniela Mantovani & Kristian Orsini & Holly Sutherland, 2006. "An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries," IZA Discussion Papers 2173, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
5. Thai-Thanh Dang & Herwig Immervoll & Daniela Mantovani & Kristian Orsini & Holly Sutherland, 2006. "An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries," OECD Social Employment and Migration Working Papers 34, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. [Downloadable!]
6. Dang T & Immervoll H & Mantovani D & Orsini K & Sutherland H, 2006. "An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries," EUROMOD Working Papers em3/06, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
7. Andrew Clark & Orsolya Lelkes, 2006. "Deliver us from Evil: Religion as insurance," Papers on Economics of Religion 06/03, Department of Economic Theory and Economic History of the University of Granada.. [Downloadable!]
8. Levy, Horacio & Lietz, Christine & Sutherland, Holly, 2006. "Alternative Tax-Benefit Strategies to Support Children in the European Union. Recent Reforms in Austria, Spain and the UK," Economics Series 185, Institute for Advanced Studies. [Downloadable!]
9. Levy H & Lietz C & Sutherland H, 2006. "A Basic Income for Europe's Children?," EUROMOD Working Papers em4/06, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
10. Horacio Levy & Christine Lietz & Holly Sutherland, 2006. "A Basic Income for Europe's Children?," ISER working papers 2006-47, Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
11. Della Giusta, Marina & Di Tommaso, Maria Laura & Shima, Isilda & Strøm, Steinar, 2006. "What money buys: clients of street sex workers in the US," Memorandum 10/2006, Oslo University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

2005

1. Herwig Immervoll & Henrik Jacobsen Kleven & Claus Thustrup Kreiner & Emmanuel Saez, 2005. "Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Microsimulation Analysis," IZA Discussion Papers 1810, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
2. Herwig Immervoll & Horacio Levy & Christine Lietz & Daniela Manotvani & Cathal O’Donoghue & Holly Sutherland & Gerlinde Verbist, 2005. "Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalising Properties of Taxes and Benefits," IZA Discussion Papers 1824, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
3. Herwig Immervoll & Horacio Levy & José Ricardo Nogueira & Cathal O´Donoghue & Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira, 2005. "The Impact of Brazil´s Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty," Ibero America Institute for Econ. Research (IAI) Discussion Papers 117, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
4. Herwig Immervoll & Henrik Jacobsen Kleven & Claus Thustrup Kreiner & Emmanuel Saez, 2005. "Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Microsimulation Analysis," OECD Social Employment and Migration Working Papers 28, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. [Downloadable!]
5. Herwig Immervoll & David Barber, 2005. "Can Parents Afford to Work?: Childcare Costs, Tax-Benefit Policies and Work Incentives," OECD Social Employment and Migration Working Papers 31, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. [Downloadable!]
6. Immervoll H & Levy H & Lietz C & Mantovani D & O'Donoghue C & Sutherland H & Verbist G, 2005. "Household incomes and redistribution in the European Union: quantifying the equalising properties of taxes and benefits," EUROMOD Working Papers em9/05, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
7. Immervoll H & Lindström K & Mustonen E & Riihelä M & Viitamäki H, 2005. "Static data ageing techniques. Accounting for population changes in tax-benefit microsimulation models," EUROMOD Working Papers em7/05, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
8. Orsolya Lelkes, 2005. "Knowing what is good for you. Empirical analysis of personal preferences and the “objective good”," Others 0502008, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
9. Andrew E. Clark & Orsolya Lelkes, 2005. "Deliver us from evil: religion as insurance," PSE Working Papers 2005-43, PSE (Ecole normale supérieure). [Downloadable!]
10. Orsolya Lelkes, 2005. "Knowing what is good for you. Empirical analysis of personal preferences and the 'objective good'," Others 0502002, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
11. Orsolya Lelkes, 2005. "Knowing what is good for you: Empirical analysis of personal preferences and the “objective good”," CASE Papers 094, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE. [Downloadable!]
12. Matsaganis, Manos & Levy, Horacio & Mercader-Prats, Magda & Toso, Stefano & O’Donoghue, Cathal & Coromaldi, Manuela & Rodrigues, Carlos Farinha & Tsakloglou, Panos, 2005. "Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe," IZA Discussion Papers 1509, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
13. Holly Sutherland & Christine Lietz & Horacio Levy, 2005. "Alternative Tax-benefit strategies to support children in the European Union. Recent Reforms in Austria, Spain and the United Kingdom," Innocenti Working Papers inwopa05/32, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. [Downloadable!]
14. Levy H & Lietz C & Sutherland H, 2005. "Alternative Tax-Benefit Strategies to Support Children in the European Union: recent reforms in Austria, Spain and the United Kingdom," EUROMOD Working Papers em10/05, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]

2004

1. Immervoll, Herwig & Kleven, Henrik & Kreiner, Claus Thustrup & Saez, Emmanuel, 2004. "Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Micro-Simulation Analysis," CEPR Discussion Papers 4324, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Giuseppe Carone & Aino Salomaki & Herwig Immervoll & Dominique Paturot, 2004. "Indicators of unemployment and low-wage traps (Marginal effective tax rates on labour)," Labor and Demography 0409007, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
3. Herwig Immervoll, 2004. "Average and Marginal Effective Tax Rates Facing Workers in the EU: A Micro-Level Analysis of Levels, Distributions and Driving Factors," OECD Social Employment and Migration Working Papers 19, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. [Downloadable!]
4. Herwig Immervoll & Pascal Marianna & Marco Mira d'Ercole, 2004. "Benefit Coverage Rates and Household Typologies: Scope and Limitations of Tax-Benefit Indicators," OECD Social Employment and Migration Working Papers 20, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. [Downloadable!]
5. Giuseppe Carone & Herwig Immervoll & Dominique Paturot & Aino Salomäki, 2004. "Indicators of Unemployment and Low-Wage Traps: Marginal Effective Tax Rates on Employment Incomes," OECD Social Employment and Migration Working Papers 18, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. [Downloadable!]
6. Immervoll H, 2004. "Average and marginal effective tax Rates facing workers in the eu. A Micro-level analysis of levels, Distributions and driving factors (revised version of EM2/02)," EUROMOD Working Papers em6/04, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
7. Immervoll H, 2004. "Falling up the stairs. An exploration of the effects of "bracket creep" on household incomes," EUROMOD Working Papers em3/04, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, revised Oct 2004. [Downloadable!]
8. Immervoll H & Kleven H J & Kreiner C T & Saez E, 2004. "Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Micro-Simulation Analysis," EUROMOD Working Papers em1/04, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
9. Orsolya Lelkes, 2004. "Knowing what is good for you. Empirical analysis of personal preferences and the “objective good”," Others 0410010, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
10. Mercader-Prats M & Levy H, 2004. "The role of tax and transfers in reducing personal Income Inequality in Europe’s regions: Evidence from EUROMOD," EUROMOD Working Papers em9/04, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
11. O'Donoghue C & Levy H & Coromaldi M & Mercader-Prats M & Farinha Rodrigues C & Toso S & Tsakloglou P, 2004. "Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe," EUROMOD Working Papers em2/04, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
12. Shima, Isilda, 2004. "The shadow economy in Norway: Demand for currency approach," Memorandum 10/2004, Oslo University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

2003

1. Herwig Immervoll & Cathal O'Donoghue, 2003. "Imputation of Gross Amounts from Net Incomes in Household Surveys. An Application using EUROMOD," Computational Economics 0302001, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
2. Herwig Immervoll & Cathal O'Donoghue, 2003. "Towards A Multi-Purpose Framework For Tax-Benefit Microsimulation," Computational Economics 0302002, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
3. Herwig Immervoll & Cathal O'Donoghue, 2003. "Welfare Benefits and Work Incentives. An Analysis of the Distribution of Net Replacement Rates in Europe using EUROMOD, a Multi- Country Microsimulation Model," Labor and Demography 0302001, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
4. Frédéric Berger & Monique Borsenberger & Herwig Immervoll & Julie Lumen & Bertrand Scholtus & Klaas DeVos, 2003. "The Impact Of Tax-Benefit Systems On Lowincome Households In The Benelux Countries. A Simulation Approach Using Synthetic Datasets," Microeconomics 0302003, EconWPA, revised 07 Feb 2003. [Downloadable!]
5. Herwig Immervoll & Cathal O'Donoghue, 2003. "Employment Transitions in 13 European Countries. Levels, Distributions and Determining Factors of Net Replacement Rates," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo GmbH. [Downloadable!]
6. Immervoll H & O'Donoghue C, 2003. "Employment Transitions in 13 European Countries. Levels, Distributions and Determining Factors of Net Replacement Rates," EUROMOD Working Papers em/3/03, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
7. Horacio Levy & Magda Mercader Prats, 2003. "Eficacia y eficiencia de los subsidios asistenciales en la lucha contra la pobreza en España: Una valoración a partir de EspaSim," Working Papers wpdea0301, Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona. [Downloadable!]
8. Feres P & Immervoll H & Lietz C & Levy H & Mantovani D & Sutherland H, 2003. "Indicators for Social Inclusion in the European Union: how responsive are they to macro-level changes?," EUROMOD Working Papers em3/02, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
9. Levy H, 2003. "Child-targeted tax-benefit reform in Spain in a European context: a microsimulation analysis using EUROMOD," EUROMOD Working Papers em2/03, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]

2002

1. Immervoll H & O'Donoghue C, 2002. "Welfare benefits and work incentives: the distribution of net replacement rates in Europe using a cross-country microsimulation model, EUROMOD," EUROMOD Working Papers em4/01, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
2. Orsolya Lelkes, 2002. "Tasting Freedom: Happiness, religion and economic transition," CASE Papers 59, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE. [Downloadable!]
3. Albuquerque J & Baldini M & Bargain O & Bosi P & Levy H & Mantovani D & Matsaganis M & Mercader-Prats M & O'Donoghue C & Farinha Rodrigues C & Spadaro A & Toso S & Terraz I & Tsakloglou P, 2002. "The impact of means tested assistance in Southern Europe," EUROMOD Working Papers em6/01, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]

2001

1. Berger F & Borsenberger M & Immervoll H & Lumen J & Scholtus B & De Vos K, 2001. "The Impact of Tax-Benefit Systems on Low Income Households in the Benelux Countries. A Simulation Approach Using Synthetic Datasets," EUROMOD Working Papers em3/01, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
2. Immervoll H & O'Donoghue C, 2001. "Imputation of Gross Amounts from Net Incomes in Household Surveys: An Application using EUROMOD," EUROMOD Working Papers em1/01, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
3. Immervoll H & O'Donoghue C, 2001. "Towards a Multi-Purpose Framework for Tax-Benefit Microsimulation," EUROMOD Working Papers em2/01, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
4. Horacio Levy & Magda Mercader Prats, 2001. "Los principales elementos del nuevo IRPF: una valoración a partir de ESPASIM," Working Papers wp0104, Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona. [Downloadable!]

2000

1. Immervoll, H., 2000. "Fiscal Drag - An Automatic Stabiliser?," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0025, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. [Downloadable!]
2. Immervoll H & Sutherland H & De Vos K, 2000. "Child Poverty and Child Benefits in the European Union," EUROMOD Working Papers em1/00, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]

1999

1. Immervoll H & Mitton L & O'Donoghue C & Sutherland H, 1999. "Budgeting for fairness? The distributional effects of three Labour Budgets," Microsimulation Unit Research Notes mu/rn/32, Microsimulation Unit at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
2. Immervoll H & O'Donoghue C & Sutherland H, 1999. "An Introduction to EUROMOD," EUROMOD Working Papers em0/99, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. [Downloadable!]

Journal articles

2007

1. Herwig Immervoll & Henrik Jacobsen Kleven & Claus Thustrup Kreiner & Emmanuel Saez, 2007. "Welfare reform in European countries: a microsimulation analysis," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 117(516), pages 1-44, 01. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2006

1. Herwig Immervoll & Horacio Levy & Christine Lietz & Daniela Mantovani & Holly Sutherland, 2006. "The sensitivity of poverty rates to macro-level changes in the European Union," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 30(2), pages 181-199, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Lelkes, Orsolya, 2006. "Tasting freedom: Happiness, religion and economic transition," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 59(2), pages 173-194, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Lelkes, Orsolya, 2006. "Knowing what is good for you: Empirical analysis of personal preferences and the "objective good"," The Journal of Socio-Economics, Elsevier, vol. 35(2), pages 285-307, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2005

1. Herwig Immervoll, 2005. "Falling Up The Stairs: The Effects Of "Bracket Creep" On Household Incomes," Review of Income and Wealth, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 51(1), pages 37-62, 03. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Isilda Shima, 2005. "The Shadow Economy in NorwayDemand for Currency Approach," The Icfai Journal of Monetary Economics, Icfai Press, vol. 0(1), pages 61 - 78, February.

2002

1. Horacio Levy & Magda Mercador-Prats, 2002. "Simplifying the personal income tax system: lessons from the 1998 Spanish reform," Fiscal Studies, Institute for Fiscal Studies, vol. 23(3), pages 419-443, September.

2001

1. Horacio Levy & Magda Mercader-Prats & Mercedes Planas, 2001. "An Introduction to ESPASIM: A Microsimulation Model to Assess Tax-Benefit Reforms in Spain," Brazilian Electronic Journal of Economics, Department of Economics, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, vol. 4(1), September. [Downloadable!]

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