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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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Journal Article
Quantifying the Impacts of Expanding Social Protection on Efficiency and Equity: Evidence from a Behavioral Microsimulation Model for GhanaThis article is from a forthcoming UNU-WIDER special issue of the International Journal of Microsimulation A key challenge facing developing countries when they are gradually building up their social protection system is the presence of a large infor...
Developing countries Social protection TaxationJournal Article
A Role for Universal Pension?: Simulating Universal Pensions in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South AfricaThis article is from a forthcoming UNU-WIDER special issue of the International Journal of Microsimulation We use four novel, cross-country comparable tax-benefit microsimulation models for Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa to analyse ex ante...
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...
Conference
Income redistribution and the role of tax-benefit systems in Latin America
Workshop
Second training round on ECUAMOD – a tax-benefit microsimulation model for EcuadorThis is the second training event on the ECUAMOD model, which will provide participants with comprehensive training to use the tax-benefit microsimulation model effectively. It is targeted for existing and potential new users of the model at...
Workshop
Second training round on GHAMOD – a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana
Project workshop
Work-in-progress workshop: Tax-benefit microsimulation analysisUNU-WIDER is organizing a project workshop to discuss research papers currently being written on tax-benefit microsimulation analysis under the SOUTHMOD – simulating tax and benefit policies for development project.
Project workshop
SOUTHMOD workshop 2018Under the SOUTHMOD – simulating tax and benefit policies for development project UNU-WIDER is organizing a workshop for project contributors. The workshop is an opportunity for representatives of the country teams from Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana...
Workshop
Second training round on MOZMOD – a tax-benefit microsimulation model for MozambiqueThis is the second training event on the MOZMOD model, which will provide participants with comprehensive training to use the tax-benefit microsimulation model effectively. It is targeted for existing and potential new users of the model at...
Policy seminar
UNU-WIDER at the World Village FestivalUNU-WIDER, with other UN agencies and affiliates, is present at the World Village Festival 2018. The festival takes place 26-27 May 2018 in Helsinki, Finland.
Workshop
Training event: Enhanced analysis with MicroZAMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Zambia
Working Paper
A role for universal pension? Simulating universal pensions in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania, and South AfricaWe use four novel, cross-country comparable tax-benefit microsimulation models for Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania, and South Africa to evaluate ex ante the expansion of a universal old-age pension in a static setting...
Old-age benefit Poverty SOUTHMODNews
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Quantifying the impacts of expanding social protection on efficiency and equity: Evidence from a behavioural microsimulation model for GhanaA large informal sector is a challenge for developing countries building up social protection systems...
Developing countries Social protection Taxation