The paper explores options for redistributive policies for policy makers to address income inequality within countries.

Professor Holly Sutherland, Director of EUROMOD said:

“I am delighted that the IMF has found EUROMOD-based research so useful for its study on fiscal policy and income inequality.”

Research evidence from EUROMOD includes

• The distributional effects of fiscal consolidation in nine EU countries EUROMOD Working Paper EM2/13

• The Distributional Impact of In-Kind Public Benefits in European Countries EUROMOD Working Paper EM10/09

• Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalising Properties of Taxes and Benefits EUROMOD Working Paper EM9/05

• The Effects of Taxes and Benefits on Income Distribution in the Enlarged EU EUROMOD Working Paper EM8/09

• Austerity and the income distribution: the case of Cyprus EUROMOD Working Paper EM4/13

• Modelling the Redistributive Impact of Indirect Taxes in Europe: An Application of EUROMOD EUROMOD Working Paper EM7/01

EUROMOD is a tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union (EU) that enables researchers and policy analysts to calculate, in a comparable manner, the effects of taxes and benefits on household incomes and work incentives for the population of each country and for the EU as a whole.