Publications

2009

Welfare-to-work programmes in the UK and lessons for other countries

Welfare-to-work programmes have long been pursued in European countries. The UK had shown more interest in learning from the US workfare model, and its policy design and the experience of the past 10 years offer a number of insights for other countries.

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Annual Report of Activities 2009/2010

Annual report of activities

Provides an overview of research activities and publications in 2009 and 2010.

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Social assistance: No, thanks?

Policy brief

Based on the comparison of detailed micro-data and potential entitlements simulated with tax/benefit microsimulation models, the Policy Brief estimates the size of non-take-up of monetary social assistance benefits in Austria, Germany and Finland after 2000.

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New frontiers in microsimulation modelling

Books & contributions to books

Microsimulation models have become firmly established as vital tools for analysis of the distributional impact of changes in government programmes. They are used extensively to assess who are the winners and losers from proposed policy reforms.

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Tax and benefit policies in the enlarged Europe

Books & contributions to books

This book is one of the first systematic collections of studies based on the European tax-benefit microsimulation model, and thus a synthesis of the scientific work of researchers from more than a dozen of countries for over a decade.

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