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Pia Rattenhuber
Research Fellow
Pia Rattenhuber is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. She has previously worked for OECD (Department of Labour and Social Affairs), the German Ministry of Economics and the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin). She attained her PhD from Free University Berlin. Her works focuses on social protection systems, taxation and tax-benefit microsimulation models.
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Working 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 dataPresentation
SOUTHMOD presented at the CeMPA General MeetingCeMPA , Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis, organized its yearly general meeting for experts working in the area of tax-benefit microsimulation on 12 May 2021. The meeting was held virtually. SOUTHMOD microsimulation models and ongoing...
Presentation
SOUTHMOD presented at the MEXMOD launch eventMexico will be launching the tax-benefit microsimulation model MEXMOD on 11 February 2021. The launch event will be organized online by Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo ( CIAD ) and the University of Essex . The...
Working Paper
The effects of personal income tax reform on employees’ taxable income in UgandaWe evaluate a major personal income tax reform in Uganda that came into effect in 2012–13. The reform increased the tax-free lower threshold, increased tax rates for higher incomes, and introduced an additional highest tax band...
Personal income tax Uganda Administrative dataBlog
Studying COVID-19 through the lens of microsimulation: The role of tax and benefit policies in alleviating poverty and inequalityAs the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, developing nations are struggling to deliver economic assistance and public services to their citizens, under pressures of fiscal constraints and tax revenue losses...
Tax-benefit microsimulation Tax-benefit policy Individual povertyPresentation
SOUTHMOD presented at the ATAF Research webinar seriesAfrican Tax Administration Forum ( ATAF ) and the African Tax Research Network ( ATRN ) in conjunction with the University of Pretoria ( UP ) and the University of Witwatersrand ( WITS ) are organizing a Research webinar series on 25-26 November...
Project
SOUTHMOD - simulating tax and benefit policies for development Phase 2
Theme: Transforming states
SOUTHMOD Tax-benefit microsimulation Tax-benefit policyProject workshop
2019 SOUTHMOD workshop
Presentation
WIDER research and impact – introducing the Estonian School of Diplomacy to the work of UNU-WIDER
Report
SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v1.3View the latest GHAMOD country report here . This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana...
Tax Government revenue GHAMODJournal Article
Quantifying the Impacts of Expanding Social Protection on Efficiency and Equity: Evidence from a Behavioral Microsimulation Model for GhanaPart of Journal Special Issue SOUTHMOD: Modelling Tax-benefit Systems in Developing Countries
Developing countries Social protection TaxationJournal Article
A Role for Universal Pension?: Simulating Universal Pensions in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue SOUTHMOD: Modelling Tax-benefit Systems in Developing Countries
Old-age benefit Poverty SOUTHMODProject workshop
Using administrative tax data for research in Uganda: meeting of project collaboratorsThe workshop brought together around 20 participants, including researchers and staff members from the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), UNU-WIDER, the Southern African Social Policy Research Institute (SASPRI), and the University of Makerere to...
Workshop
Second training on TAZMOD – a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Tanzania
Conference
Redistribución de ingreso y el rol de los impuestos y las transferencias monetarias en América LatinaEl Instituto Mundial para la Investigación de Economía del Desarrollo de la Universidad de las Naciones Unidas (UNU-WIDER) junto con el equipo de EUROMOD del Instituto de Investigación Social y Económica (ISER) de la...