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New European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research Vienna
publication:
Lelkes, Orsolya/ Sutherland, Holly (Eds.) (2009) Tax and Benefit
Policies in the Enlarged Europe: Assessing the Impact with
Microsimulation Models. Public Policy and Social Welfare Vol. 35 (A
Series Edited by Bernd Marin, European Centre). Aldershot (UK): Ashgate.
The book is one of the first systematic collections of studies based on
the European tax-benefit microsimulation model, and has a specific focus
on Eastern Europe, within a comparative European perspective. It
provides novel analysis on the impact of tax and benefit systems on
individuals' incomes and work incentives. Not only actual policies are
assessed, but hypothetical scenarios of interest to policy-makers as
well, for example the introduction of flat taxes.
The central premise of the book is that optimal policy decisions need to
be informed by detailed empirical evidence, and it provides a powerful
presentation on how complex information on the interaction of specific
tax and cash benefit policy instruments can be presented in a concise
and comprehensible way.
Book page with more details and the sample chapter "An Enlarged Role for
Tax-benefit Models" by Sir Anthony B.Atkinson:
http://www.euro.centre.org/detail.php?xml_id=1479
Best regards,
Annette Hexelschneider, Dipl.-Ing.
Head of Knowledge and Information Management Support Unit
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
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A-1090 Vienna (Austria)
Tel: +43-1-319 45 05-23
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