-, Fuchs, Michael, Leichsenring, Kai, Schulmann, Katharine, Gasior, Katrin: Gute Pflege aus Sicht der Beschäftigten, -: Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien -., 2015
Thema der Diplomarbeit ist es das ehrenamtliche Engagement als wichtigen Teil Sozialer Arbeit dar... more Thema der Diplomarbeit ist es das ehrenamtliche Engagement als wichtigen Teil Sozialer Arbeit darzustellen. Dazu wurde zunächst die MitarbeiterInnenkartei der ehrenamtlichen VereinssachwalterInnen des Sachwaltervereins VertretungsNetz ausgewertet. Mittels Leitfadeninterviews wurde anschließend die individuelle Aufgabenerfüllung, persönliche Beweggründe und Bewältigungsstrategien erfragt. Die Analyse hat gezeigt, dass die Ehrenamtlichen des Vereins einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Qualität des sozialen Dienstes leisten. So bringen viele Ehrenamtliche bereits ein wichtiges Fundament zur Erfüllung ihrer Aufgabe zu Beginn mit. Dies wird teilweise auch über den Zugang zum Verein geregelt. Durch die Unterstützungsleistung der TeamleiterInnen werden die ehrenamtlichen VereinssachwalterInnen in ihrer Arbeit unterstützt und lernen stetig neue Handlungsmodelle kennen. Ein klar formuliertes Berichtswesen führt zu einer positiven Kontrolle und Reflexion der Arbeit und dadurch zu neuem Erwerb von Wis...
EUROMOD is a tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union (EU) that enables researche... more 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. EUROMOD has been enlarged to cover 27 Member States and is updated to recent policy systems using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) as the input database, supported by DG-EMPL of the European Commission. This report documents the work done in one annual update for Austria. This work was carried out by the EUROMOD
and Evita Sisene (both from Population Unit, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) at va... more and Evita Sisene (both from Population Unit, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) at various stages of the project had been extremely valuable and are gratefully acknowledged here. Useful contributions of Fritz Von Nordheim (Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission) during the 1st Expert Group meeting and that of representative from the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia during the 2nd Expert Group meeting are also acknowledged. In addition, the work reported benefited from the comments made by Michael Fuchs (during the internal AAI project meetings) and graphs prepared by René Czerny of European Centre Vienna. Editorial comments received from Sean Terry of Oxford Brookes University are also thankfully acknowledged. Asghar Zaidi has been the lead researcher, and he also coordinated the overall AAI project
EUROMOD is a tax-benefit micro-simulation model for the European Union (EU) that enables research... more EUROMOD is a tax-benefit micro-simulation 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. A major EUROMOD development project (EUROMODupdate), supported by DG-EMPL has the key objective to improve and extend EUROMOD’s usefulness. This involves enlarging and updating EUROMOD from 19 countries to cover all 27 Member States and recent policy systems, using EU-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) data as the input database. EUROMODupdate began in February 2009 and lasts for 6 years. The work is being carried out by the EUROMOD core developer team, based mainly in ISER University of Essex, in collaboration with a group of national teams. A project Steering Group has been established, under the chairmanship of Sir Tony Atkinson. Preparatory work in some of th...
This policy brief aims to examine what data currently exist on the homeless population and homele... more This policy brief aims to examine what data currently exist on the homeless population and homelessness policy outcomes, as well as discuss the most pressing issues regarding data collection. In particular, the policy brief presents data on the size and composition of the homeless population and the various methods used to collect these data in ten European countries, taking into consideration differences in the definition and operationalization of homelessness in data collection across countries. Furthermore, it discusses what data are collected at the European level and their usefulness to policymakers in providing insight on population groups at risk of homelessness and pathways into and out of homelessness. Lastly, drawing on other research carried out by the European Centre, this policy brief outlines the limited availability of data on homelessness policy outcomes and discusses gaps in this regard. The policy brief concludes with a list of recommendations at the national and E...
Tax-benefit microsimulation models are typically used to assess the impact of policy changes on t... more Tax-benefit microsimulation models are typically used to assess the impact of policy changes on the income distribution based on micro data representative of the population. Such analysis assesses the effects of tax-benefit policies by considering their interaction effects and the population structure, which are both important elements for an overall assessment of complex realities. However, it can be helpful to abstract from this complexity and to explain the effects of tax-benefit policies using concrete examples. Using hypothetical households visualises how single policies are linked with each other while leaving the additional complexity of the population structure aside. This paper uses the Hypothetical Household Tool (HHoT) to generate hypothetical household data that can be used in EUROMOD, the tax and benefit microsimulation model of the European Union, to analyse current tax and benefit policies as well as the effects of policy changes in a comparative manner. The paper pro...
The year 2012 has marked the 10th anniversary of the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing and also the 2n... more The year 2012 has marked the 10th anniversary of the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing and also the 2nd cycle of review and appraisal of the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA).
Tax and benefit systems play an important role in determining work incentives at both, the extens... more Tax and benefit systems play an important role in determining work incentives at both, the extensive and the intensive margin of labour supply. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive comparative analysis of work incentives in the EU. Our analysis makes use of microsimulation techniques and representative household surveys from all 28 EU countries to compare the distribution of short- and long-term participation tax rates and marginal effective tax rates across population subgroups. We focus on people currently in work and characterise the population facing low work incentives in each country. Our results highlight the large variation in the distribution of work incentives across EU countries, explained not only by differences in the design of tax-benefit systems, but also by the characteristics of the labour force across countries. Unemployment insurance benefits contribute substantially to short-term participation tax rates and explain on average 20 percentage point di...
The active and healthy ageing measure reported here is calculated for the 28 European Union count... more The active and healthy ageing measure reported here is calculated for the 28 European Union countries, with a specific focus on the current generation of older people and by using the latest data from multiple surveys. It covers diverse aspects of active and healthy ageing, by measuring older people’s contribution with respect to not just employment but also their unpaid familial, social and cultural contributions and their independent, healthy and secure living. The article presents the first-of-its-kind quantitative measure of active and healthy ageing in the literature on active and healthy ageing which hitherto has focused largely on concepts, definitions and public policy strategies. In this pursuit, an important contribution of this measure, referred to as the Active Ageing Index (‘AAI’), is that it also captures how countries differ with respect to capacity and enabling environments for active and healthy ageing. The AAI offers a breakdown not just by four domains of active a...
Active Ageing Index 2012 Concept, Methodology and Final Results European Centre Vienna (Authored ... more Active Ageing Index 2012 Concept, Methodology and Final Results European Centre Vienna (Authored by Asghar Zaidi / Project Coordinator, Katrin Gasior, Maria M. Hofmarcher, Orsolya Lelkes, Bernd Marin, Ricardo Rodrigues, Andrea Schmidt, Pieter Vanhuysse and Eszter Zolyomi) Report submitted to European Commission’s Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, and to the UNECE, for the project Active Ageing Index (AAI), UNECE Grant No: ECE/GC/2012/003. European Centre Vienna March 2013
ISER, University of Essex This paper presents baseline results from the latest version of EUROMOD... more ISER, University of Essex This paper presents baseline results from the latest version of EUROMOD (version I3.0+), the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. First, we briefly report the process of updating EUROMOD. We then present indicators for income inequality and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for differences between these and EU-SILC based indicators. We further compare EUROMOD distributional indicators across all EU 28 countries and over time between 2017 and 2020. Finally, we provide estimates of marginal effective tax rates (METR) for all 28 EU countries in order to explore the effect of tax and benefit systems on work incentives at the intensive margin. Throughout the paper, we highlight both the potential of EUROMOD as a tool for policy analysis and the caveats that should be borne in mind when using it and interpreting results. This paper updates the work reported in Kneeshaw (2020). JEL: C15, H24, H31, H55, I3
-, Fuchs, Michael, Leichsenring, Kai, Schulmann, Katharine, Gasior, Katrin: Gute Pflege aus Sicht der Beschäftigten, -: Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien -., 2015
Thema der Diplomarbeit ist es das ehrenamtliche Engagement als wichtigen Teil Sozialer Arbeit dar... more Thema der Diplomarbeit ist es das ehrenamtliche Engagement als wichtigen Teil Sozialer Arbeit darzustellen. Dazu wurde zunächst die MitarbeiterInnenkartei der ehrenamtlichen VereinssachwalterInnen des Sachwaltervereins VertretungsNetz ausgewertet. Mittels Leitfadeninterviews wurde anschließend die individuelle Aufgabenerfüllung, persönliche Beweggründe und Bewältigungsstrategien erfragt. Die Analyse hat gezeigt, dass die Ehrenamtlichen des Vereins einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Qualität des sozialen Dienstes leisten. So bringen viele Ehrenamtliche bereits ein wichtiges Fundament zur Erfüllung ihrer Aufgabe zu Beginn mit. Dies wird teilweise auch über den Zugang zum Verein geregelt. Durch die Unterstützungsleistung der TeamleiterInnen werden die ehrenamtlichen VereinssachwalterInnen in ihrer Arbeit unterstützt und lernen stetig neue Handlungsmodelle kennen. Ein klar formuliertes Berichtswesen führt zu einer positiven Kontrolle und Reflexion der Arbeit und dadurch zu neuem Erwerb von Wis...
EUROMOD is a tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union (EU) that enables researche... more 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. EUROMOD has been enlarged to cover 27 Member States and is updated to recent policy systems using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) as the input database, supported by DG-EMPL of the European Commission. This report documents the work done in one annual update for Austria. This work was carried out by the EUROMOD
and Evita Sisene (both from Population Unit, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) at va... more and Evita Sisene (both from Population Unit, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) at various stages of the project had been extremely valuable and are gratefully acknowledged here. Useful contributions of Fritz Von Nordheim (Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission) during the 1st Expert Group meeting and that of representative from the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia during the 2nd Expert Group meeting are also acknowledged. In addition, the work reported benefited from the comments made by Michael Fuchs (during the internal AAI project meetings) and graphs prepared by René Czerny of European Centre Vienna. Editorial comments received from Sean Terry of Oxford Brookes University are also thankfully acknowledged. Asghar Zaidi has been the lead researcher, and he also coordinated the overall AAI project
EUROMOD is a tax-benefit micro-simulation model for the European Union (EU) that enables research... more EUROMOD is a tax-benefit micro-simulation 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. A major EUROMOD development project (EUROMODupdate), supported by DG-EMPL has the key objective to improve and extend EUROMOD’s usefulness. This involves enlarging and updating EUROMOD from 19 countries to cover all 27 Member States and recent policy systems, using EU-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) data as the input database. EUROMODupdate began in February 2009 and lasts for 6 years. The work is being carried out by the EUROMOD core developer team, based mainly in ISER University of Essex, in collaboration with a group of national teams. A project Steering Group has been established, under the chairmanship of Sir Tony Atkinson. Preparatory work in some of th...
This policy brief aims to examine what data currently exist on the homeless population and homele... more This policy brief aims to examine what data currently exist on the homeless population and homelessness policy outcomes, as well as discuss the most pressing issues regarding data collection. In particular, the policy brief presents data on the size and composition of the homeless population and the various methods used to collect these data in ten European countries, taking into consideration differences in the definition and operationalization of homelessness in data collection across countries. Furthermore, it discusses what data are collected at the European level and their usefulness to policymakers in providing insight on population groups at risk of homelessness and pathways into and out of homelessness. Lastly, drawing on other research carried out by the European Centre, this policy brief outlines the limited availability of data on homelessness policy outcomes and discusses gaps in this regard. The policy brief concludes with a list of recommendations at the national and E...
Tax-benefit microsimulation models are typically used to assess the impact of policy changes on t... more Tax-benefit microsimulation models are typically used to assess the impact of policy changes on the income distribution based on micro data representative of the population. Such analysis assesses the effects of tax-benefit policies by considering their interaction effects and the population structure, which are both important elements for an overall assessment of complex realities. However, it can be helpful to abstract from this complexity and to explain the effects of tax-benefit policies using concrete examples. Using hypothetical households visualises how single policies are linked with each other while leaving the additional complexity of the population structure aside. This paper uses the Hypothetical Household Tool (HHoT) to generate hypothetical household data that can be used in EUROMOD, the tax and benefit microsimulation model of the European Union, to analyse current tax and benefit policies as well as the effects of policy changes in a comparative manner. The paper pro...
The year 2012 has marked the 10th anniversary of the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing and also the 2n... more The year 2012 has marked the 10th anniversary of the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing and also the 2nd cycle of review and appraisal of the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA).
Tax and benefit systems play an important role in determining work incentives at both, the extens... more Tax and benefit systems play an important role in determining work incentives at both, the extensive and the intensive margin of labour supply. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive comparative analysis of work incentives in the EU. Our analysis makes use of microsimulation techniques and representative household surveys from all 28 EU countries to compare the distribution of short- and long-term participation tax rates and marginal effective tax rates across population subgroups. We focus on people currently in work and characterise the population facing low work incentives in each country. Our results highlight the large variation in the distribution of work incentives across EU countries, explained not only by differences in the design of tax-benefit systems, but also by the characteristics of the labour force across countries. Unemployment insurance benefits contribute substantially to short-term participation tax rates and explain on average 20 percentage point di...
The active and healthy ageing measure reported here is calculated for the 28 European Union count... more The active and healthy ageing measure reported here is calculated for the 28 European Union countries, with a specific focus on the current generation of older people and by using the latest data from multiple surveys. It covers diverse aspects of active and healthy ageing, by measuring older people’s contribution with respect to not just employment but also their unpaid familial, social and cultural contributions and their independent, healthy and secure living. The article presents the first-of-its-kind quantitative measure of active and healthy ageing in the literature on active and healthy ageing which hitherto has focused largely on concepts, definitions and public policy strategies. In this pursuit, an important contribution of this measure, referred to as the Active Ageing Index (‘AAI’), is that it also captures how countries differ with respect to capacity and enabling environments for active and healthy ageing. The AAI offers a breakdown not just by four domains of active a...
Active Ageing Index 2012 Concept, Methodology and Final Results European Centre Vienna (Authored ... more Active Ageing Index 2012 Concept, Methodology and Final Results European Centre Vienna (Authored by Asghar Zaidi / Project Coordinator, Katrin Gasior, Maria M. Hofmarcher, Orsolya Lelkes, Bernd Marin, Ricardo Rodrigues, Andrea Schmidt, Pieter Vanhuysse and Eszter Zolyomi) Report submitted to European Commission’s Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, and to the UNECE, for the project Active Ageing Index (AAI), UNECE Grant No: ECE/GC/2012/003. European Centre Vienna March 2013
ISER, University of Essex This paper presents baseline results from the latest version of EUROMOD... more ISER, University of Essex This paper presents baseline results from the latest version of EUROMOD (version I3.0+), the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. First, we briefly report the process of updating EUROMOD. We then present indicators for income inequality and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for differences between these and EU-SILC based indicators. We further compare EUROMOD distributional indicators across all EU 28 countries and over time between 2017 and 2020. Finally, we provide estimates of marginal effective tax rates (METR) for all 28 EU countries in order to explore the effect of tax and benefit systems on work incentives at the intensive margin. Throughout the paper, we highlight both the potential of EUROMOD as a tool for policy analysis and the caveats that should be borne in mind when using it and interpreting results. This paper updates the work reported in Kneeshaw (2020). JEL: C15, H24, H31, H55, I3
The active and healthy ageing measure reported here is calculated for the 28 European Union count... more The active and healthy ageing measure reported here is calculated for the 28 European Union countries, with a specific focus on the current generation of older people and by using the latest data from multiple surveys. It covers diverse aspects of active and healthy ageing, by measuring older people’s contribution with respect to not just employment but also their unpaid familial, social and cultural contributions and their independent, healthy and secure living. The article presents the first-of-its-kind quantitative measure of active and healthy ageing in the literature on active and healthy ageing which hitherto has focused largely on concepts, definitions and public policy strategies. In this pursuit, an important contribution of this measure, referred to as the Active Ageing Index (‘AAI’), is that it also captures how countries differ with respect to capacity and enabling environments for active and healthy ageing. The AAI offers a breakdown not just by four domains of active and healthy ageing but also by gender. Key findings are that Sweden comes at the top of the country ranking, followed closely by Denmark, the United Kingdom, Finland, the Netherlands and Ireland. The four southern European countries (Italy, Portugal, Spain and Malta) are middle-ranked countries. Greece and many of the Central European countries are at the bottom, highlighting much greater untapped potentials of active and healthy ageing among older people in these countries and a need for greater policy efforts. Women fare worse than men in most countries, identifying a need for an emphasis on reducing gender disparity in experiences of active and healthy ageing. The AAI tool developed has the potential to identify the social policy mechanisms behind the differential achievements of active and healthy ageing, for example, what active and healthy ageing strategies have driven top performers, and in what respect the bottom-ranked countries have lagged behind.
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2022
The authors of the special issue combine case studies and comparative analysis across America, As... more The authors of the special issue combine case studies and comparative analysis across America, Asia, Africa and Europe. The authors were invited to develop their studies with a focus on one or more of three axes: (1) Institutional and governance challenges surrounding the implementation and expansion of social welfare programs; (2) State of the art and diversity across emerging welfare states; (3) Challenges associated with migration and demographic pressures. Articles in this special issue contribute to our understanding of recent challenges and transformations of welfare regimes, with special attention to the following policy areas: youth-emancipation, the reduction of poverty and income inequality, social protection and taxation, the role of historical institutionalism to better understand social policy implementation and expansion, the lack of transformative social protection in ‘New Right’ governments, determinants of social equality and the transformative effect of migration into welfare states.
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followed closely by Denmark, the United Kingdom, Finland, the Netherlands and Ireland. The four southern European countries (Italy, Portugal, Spain and Malta) are middle-ranked countries. Greece and many of the Central European countries are at the bottom, highlighting much greater untapped potentials of active and healthy ageing among older people in these countries and a need for greater policy efforts. Women fare worse than men in most countries, identifying a need for an emphasis on reducing gender disparity in experiences of active and healthy ageing. The AAI tool developed has the potential to identify the social policy mechanisms behind the differential achievements of active and healthy ageing, for example, what active and healthy ageing strategies have driven top performers, and in what respect the bottom-ranked countries have lagged behind.