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The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax–beneft policies during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from EcuadorBy combining household survey data before and during the COVID-19 pandemic with detailed tax-benefit simulations, this paper quantifies the distributional effects of COVID-19 in Ecuador and the role of tax-benefit policies in mitigating the immediate...
COVID-19 Microsimulation PovertyWorkshop
Fifth training round on ECUAMOD – a tax-benefit microsimulation model for EcuadorAs part of the SOUTHMOD project , the national team at FLACSO in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and University of Essex organizes the fifth training event on the ECUAMOD model , which will provide participants with comprehensive training to use the...
Working Paper
Female labour supply and informal employment in EcuadorLow- and middle-income countries face a trade-off between raising tax revenue to strengthen social protection and creating incentives for the population to enter formal employment...
Labour supply Informal work Tax-benefit policyTechnical Note
Discrete choice modelling of labour supply and informal employment using ECUAMODThis technical note presents one of the modelling approaches used in Jara and Rattenhuber (2022) to estimate formal employment elasticities, namely the estimation of a discrete choice model of labour supply with informal employment...
Labour supply Informal EmploymentReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v2.0This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador...
Taxes Benefits MicrosimulationWorking Paper
What explains the gender gap in top incomes in developing countries?: Evidence from EcuadorBased on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017...
Top incomes Gender inequality Tax dataWorkshop
Fourth training round on ECUAMOD – a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador
Blog
Ecuador’s social protection system failed during the pandemic: It needs a rethinkHousehold incomes in Ecuador were badly hit by the pandemic, despite the government’s emergency grant to families...
COVID-19 Microsimulation PovertyResearch Brief
Working Paper
The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax–benefit policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in EcuadorThis paper makes use of tax–benefit microsimulation techniques to quantify the distributional effects of COVID-19 in Ecuador and the role of tax–benefit policies in mitigating the immediate impact of the economic shocks...
COVID-19 Microsimulation PovertyReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v1.5View the latest ECUAMOD country report here . This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador...
Taxes Benefits MicrosimulationReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v1.4View the latest ECUAMOD country report here . This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador...
Taxes Benefits MicrosimulationReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v1.2View the latest ECUAMOD country report here . This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador...
Taxes Benefits MicrosimulationWorking Paper
Tax-benefit microsimulation and income redistribution in EcuadorThe aim of this paper is to explore the redistributive effects of taxes and benefits in Ecuador using two different approaches: direct use of reported taxes and benefits in household survey data, and use of simulated taxes and benefits obtained from ...
Taxes Benefits MicrosimulationNews
Government officials and researchers in Ecuador gather for ECUAMOD trainingHow does raising income tax affect government revenue? What are the costs and benefits of implementing a state pension? Tax and benefit microsimulation is a useful technique for determining how policy changes affect the distribution of income and...
Microsimulation modelling Ecuador