This note examines the balance of activation strategies in OECD countries, where this type
of policy approach has a long tradition. Countries share the objective of strengthening …

This paper aims to provide an introduction to the current state of the art of EUROMOD, the
European Union tax-benefit microsimulation model. It explains the original motivations for …

We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17
European countries and the United States using a harmonized empirical approach. We find …

American visitors to Scandinavian countries are often puzzled by what they observe: despite
large income redistribution through distortionary taxes and transfers, these are very high …

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the EU and the US
to provide income insurance through automatic stabilization in the recent economic crisis …

This article analyzes the effects of income taxation on the international migration and
earnings of top earners using a Danish preferential foreigner tax scheme and population …

Denmark is one of the richest countries in the world and achieves this in combination with
low inequality, low unemployment, and high-income security. This performance is often …

By the mid-1990s neo-liberalism had begun to reach its economic, social and political limits.
International as well national and even sub-national social policymakers in and concerned …

Page 1 IMF STAFF DISCUSSION NOTE June 28, 2012 SDN/12/08 Income Inequality and Fiscal
Policy Francesca Bastagli, David Coady, and Sanjeev Gupta INTERNATIONAL MONETARY …

The social investment perspective is replacing standard neoliberalism in Latin America as
well as Europe. With it come ideas about social citizenship that reconfigure the citizenship …