Taxation and social policy for households

EUROMOD is the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union that enables researchers and policy analysts to calculate, in a comparable manner, the distributional/inequality/poverty impacts of tax-benefit policies. Recent model extensions cover indirect taxes and hypothetical households. 

EUROMOD is maintained, updated and disseminated by the JRC Fiscal Policy Analysis team and it is widely used by researchers and policymakers across the EU. 

EUROMOD

The social dimension ranks high on the EU policy agenda. The European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan and the objectives of the green and digital transitions endorse social cohesion and fairness as guiding principles for policymaking in the EU. The promotion of EU social objectives should benefit from sound analyses and research emphasising the value added of EU policy making. 

The JRC participates in this endeavour by using its extensive toolset and expertise to support analyses of the socio-economic impact of EU policies, both at the EU and national levels for a fairer and more inclusive EU.

Direct taxation

We devise and apply methods to monitor the redistributive impact of public healthcare, which relies on estimating the value of in-kind health transfers received by households. We also analyse the affordability and access to health services, especially by vulnerable households, with the aim of helping policy makers to identify gaps in healthcare coverage in the EU. 

We consider the distributional impact of funding healthcare, as well as its long-term sustainability given the ongoing demographic trends. 

INEQHEALTH project