Micromodelling Italian Taxes and Social Policies

Maria Cozzolino () and Marco Di Marco ()
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Maria Cozzolino: Italian National Institute of Statistics
Marco Di Marco: Italian National Institute of Statistics

Rivista di statistica ufficiale, 2015, vol. 17, issue 2, 17-26

Abstract: Microsimulation models are nowadays extensively used to estimate the effects of existing and planned welfare and tax policies. The paper summarises the microsimulation models recently built at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) for the analysis of the Italian tax-benefit system and for the evaluation of public policies. It summarises the extent of Istat microsimulation models, focusing on the techniques applied to the available survey and administrative microdata to estimate the incidence of income, property and consumption taxes and of social security contributions, and the allocation of cash benefits. These calculations, taken as a whole, permit to assess the ultimate effect of the tax-benefit system on the redistribution of incomes and on poverty. A wide set of legislative details have been included in the models, in order to account for all the interactions between different policy instruments.

Keywords: Microsimulation; Redistribution; Poverty; Inequality. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C54 H24 H53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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