Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Keane, … - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2014
France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy changes. The period examined, 2008 to … period were mainly driven by changes in market income distributions or by tax- benefit policy reforms. We disentangle these … effects by producing counterfactual ("no reform") scenarios using tax-benefit microsimulation and representative household …