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Book SynopsisOffers an assessment of income redistribution in Eastern Europe, within a comparative European perspective. This book demonstrates the research potential of microsimulation techniques in this region. It includes chapters that are based on an instrument - EUROMOD: the European tax-benefit microsimulation model.
Trade Review'The appropriate collection of published studies in Part II and III make the book interesting for a broader audience by providing an overall view on the possible applications of the model...At the same time, the in-depth analysis in individual chapters is interesting for economists and social scientists working in the field of tax and benefit policies....this book is interesting for the broader community and should be read by the experts of tax-benefit policies' The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 'The authors are to be congratulated on a most useful book, but even more on the model-building and research projects which it's all about.' Citizen's Income
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction, Orsolya Lelkes and Holly Sutherland; Part I Setting the Scene: An enlarged role for tax benefit models, Sir Anthony B. Atkinson; EUROMOD: past, present and future, Holly Sutherland. Part II Comparative Analyses Using the Enlarged EUROMOD: The effects of taxes and benefits on income distribution in the enlarged EU, Alari Paulus, Mitja Cok, Francesco Figari, Péter Hegedüs, Silja Kralik, NataÅ¡a Kump, Orsolya Lelkes, Horacio Levy, Christine Lietz, Daniela Mantovani, Leszek Morawski, Holly Sutherland, Péter Szivós and Andres Võrk; Flat tax reform in Eastern Europe: a comparative analysis of alternative scenarios in Estonia, Hungary and Slovenia, using EUROMOD, Alari Paulus, Orsolya Lelkes, Mitja Cok, NataÅ¡a Kump, Péter Hegedüs Andres Võrk, Péter Szivós and Silja Kralik; Alternative tax-benefit strategies to support children in Poland, Horacio Levy, Leszek Morawski and Michal Myck. Part III Evidence Based on Emerging National Models: Reforming child allowances in Lithuania: what does microsimulation tell us?, Lina Salanauskaite and Gerlinde Verbist; Tax-free income vs. in-work tax allowances: effects on labour market participation in Cyprus, Panos Pashardes and Alexandros Polycarpou; Looking ahead: what priorities for tax-benefit modelling?, Herwig Immervoll and Orsolya Lelkes.
