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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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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 AmericaThe Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (IAEN) and UNU-WIDER, in collaboration with the EUROMOD team at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex will organize an international conference on income...
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...
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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Sustainable Development Goals United Nations University Working Paper
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 TaxationReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ghana: GHAMOD v1.0This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana. This work was carried out by the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) and the University of Tampere in collaboration with the project partners...
Tax Government revenue Government spending policyBlog
GHAMOD launch and training: A tax-benefit microsimulation model for GhanaBetter social protection coverage and greater benefits in developing countries would certainly be welcomed by many...
Tax-benefit microsimulation GHAMOD SOUTHMODNews
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 EcuadorSeminar
ECUAMOD training - A tax-benefit microsimulation model for EcuadorA training course for ECUAMOD, the Ecuadorian tax-benefit microsimulation model, was held at the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (IAEN) in Quito on 21-23 February 2017. Participants included representatives from a wide spread of government...