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Assessing the Impact of Tax/Transfer Policy Changes on Poverty: Methodological Issues and Some European Evidence

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  • Tim Callan
  • Kieran Coleman
  • John Walsh

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A method of systematically assessing the “first-round” impact of tax and transfer policy changes on the income distribution and the incidence of relative income poverty is proposed. It involves the construction of a “distributionally neutral” policy, which can be approximated by a policy that indexes tax allowances, credits and bands and welfare payment rates in line with a broad measure of income growth. The impact of actual policy changes in five EU countries over the 1998–2001 period is then measured against this benchmark, using the EUROMOD tax-benefit model.

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  • Tim Callan & Kieran Coleman & John Walsh, 2006. "Assessing the Impact of Tax/Transfer Policy Changes on Poverty: Methodological Issues and Some European Evidence," Research in Labor Economics, in: Micro-Simulation in Action, pages 125-139, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rleczz:s0147-9121(06)25005-2
    DOI: 10.1016/S0147-9121(06)25005-2
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