Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Social Policy Division; World Bank, Europe and Central Asia; IZA Institute of Labor Economics; ISER Institute for Social and Economic Research; University of Canberra - National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM); United Nations - European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
University of Essex - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
Abstract
The authors use the European Union-wide tax-benefit model, EUROMOD, to establish baseline rates of relative poverty in 1998 for each of the Member States and then explore their sensitivity to (a) an increase in unemployment, (b) real income growth and (c) an increase in earnings inequality. They find that poverty rates are sensitive to such 'macro-level' changes but that the size - and in some cases the direction - of the effect varies across countries. If such indicators are to be used in judging the effectiveness of social policies, it is important that differences in responsiveness are fully understood.
Keywords: European Union, Microsimulation, Social indicators
Immervoll, Herwig and Immervoll, Herwig and Levy, Horacio and Lietz, Christine and Mantovani, Daniela and Sutherland, Holly, The Sensitivity of Poverty Rates to Macro-Level Changes in the European Union. Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 181-199, 2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=904495
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