Recasting Safety Nets: Reforming Social Assistance in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom

C. Donoghue and M. Evans

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Abstract: This paper investigates the simulation of common policy reforms across different countries. Changes to the equivalence scales of social assistance systems in favour of pensioners and children in Germany, Ireland and the UK were modelled. Unlike a number of previous studies of this kind (e.g. Atkinson et al. 1988), reforms were modelled in the policy and social context in which the reforms are set. To do this, three national tax- benefit microsimulation models were used. The analysis highlighted both the different structure of the policy instruments used across the countries, and the importance of the national environments in which the policy is set.

Date: 1998
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