The paper examines the effect of income transfers to families in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal using a benefit-tax model. The distributional impact of actual programmes is shown to be weak, hence the scope for reform great. As an illustration, the European benefit-tax model EUROMOD is used to simulate universal child benefits equivalent to those in Britain, Denmark and Sweden. The anti-poverty effect of such benefits is found to be in proportion to their fiscal cost.
Reforming Family Transfers in Southern Europe: Is there a Role for Universal Child benefits? / M. Matsaganis; C. O'Donoghue; H. Levy; M. Coromaldi; M. Mercader-Prats; C. Farinha Rodrigues; S. Toso; P. Tsakloglou. - In: SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIETY. - ISSN 1474-7464. - STAMPA. - 5:(2006), pp. 189-197.
Reforming Family Transfers in Southern Europe: Is there a Role for Universal Child benefits?
TOSO, STEFANO;
2006
Abstract
The paper examines the effect of income transfers to families in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal using a benefit-tax model. The distributional impact of actual programmes is shown to be weak, hence the scope for reform great. As an illustration, the European benefit-tax model EUROMOD is used to simulate universal child benefits equivalent to those in Britain, Denmark and Sweden. The anti-poverty effect of such benefits is found to be in proportion to their fiscal cost.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
