Stream 1: Tax/Benefit Reforms and Redistribution

Tax/benefit Reforms and Redistribution (1)
Monday 20 August, 09:30-11:00
Chairperson: André Decoster

• Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany: How Would it Affect the Income Distribution and Work Incentives?
  Presenter: Viktor Steiner
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• Welfare Effects of alternative bases for financing the social security system, preliminary calculations for Belgium
  Presenter: André Decoster
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Tax/benefit Reforms and Redistribution (2)
Monday 20 August, 11:30-13:00
Chairperson: Orsolya Lelkes

• A Microsimulation Analysis of Local Business Tax Reform Options in Germany
  Presenter: Frank Fossen
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• Effects of changes in Tax/Benefit Policies in Austria 1998-2005
  Presenter: Michael Fuchs
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• Analysis of income redistribution and hypothetical flat tax reform in Hungary, using a Micro-Simulation Model
  Presenter: Orsolya Lelkes
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Tax/benefit Reforms and Redistribution (3)
Monday 20 August, 14:00-15:30
Chairperson: Holly Sutherland

• Use of the microsimulation model in the tax-benefit reform in Slovenia
  Presenter: Boris Majcen
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• Effects of flat tax reforms in Europe on inequality and poverty
  Presenter: Alari Paulus
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• Inequalities within couples: market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits in Europe
  Presenter: Holly Sutherland
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Tax/benefit Reforms and Redistribution (4)
Monday 20 August, 16:00-17:30
Chairperson: Horatio Levy

• Exploring Income Distributional Outcomes of Changes in Tax and Benefit System in Canada with SPSD/M: Experience in Modeling Charitable Donation Tax Credit
  Presenter: Thaddeus Hwong
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• Distributional And Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform
  Presenter: Markus Clauss
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• Simulating the Impact of Inflation on the Progressivity of Personal Income Tax in Brazil
  Presenter: Horatio Levy
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