Assessing the Impact of Tax/Transfer Policy Changes on Poverty: Methodological Issues and Some European Evidence

Tim Callan, Kieran Coleman and John Walsh

A chapter in Micro-Simulation in Action, 2006, pp 125-139 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: A method of systematically assessing the “first-round” impact of tax and transfer policy changes on the income distribution and the incidence of relative income poverty is proposed. It involves the construction of a “distributionally neutral” policy, which can be approximated by a policy that indexes tax allowances, credits and bands and welfare payment rates in line with a broad measure of income growth. The impact of actual policy changes in five EU countries over the 1998–2001 period is then measured against this benchmark, using the EUROMOD tax-benefit model.

Date: 2006
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