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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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The role of social protection and tax policies in cushioning crisis impacts on income and poverty in low- and middle-income countries: A rapid scoping reviewIn the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries enacted tax and social protection measures to help mitigate the economic hardship faced by individuals and households...
Social protection Taxation CrisisReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v2.5This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana. The report describes the different tax-benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions, and the database on which the model runs...
Taxation Government revenue GHAMODWorking 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 EmploymentPresentation
SOUTHMOD presented at the EU Commission's Joint Research CentreUNU-WIDER Research Fellow Pia Rattenhuber presents SOUTHMOD tax-benefit microsimulation work at EU Commission's Joint Research Centre's ( JRC ) biweekly seminar series on 3 March 2022. The seminar is open to all European Commission staff and...
News
New tax research collaboration and additional SOUTHMOD model for Rwanda
Rwanda Tax administration data Tax-benefit microsimulation Workshop
New realities and challenges for development brought by COVID-19
Policy Brief
Moçambique reportou o seu primeiro caso da COVID-19 em 22 de Março de 2020. As estimativas do PIB sugerem um forte efeito da pandemia, com uma redução de sete dos nove dos sectores de actividade analisados...
COVID-19 Income distribution PovertyBlog
The pandemic and Africa's social safety netThe COVID-19 pandemic has shown that African tax and social-benefit systems are currently ill-equipped to protect households from sudden income losses...
Tax-benefit microsimulation SOUTHMOD Sub-Saharan AfricaBlog
Efforts to protect the poor during COVID: How five African countries faredThe number of people living in poverty around the world is estimated to have increased by half a billion people due to the COVID-19 crisis...
COVID-19 Sub-Saharan Africa Tax-benefit policyPolicy Brief
Presumptive tax, a final tax on business income, was introduced in Uganda in 1997. It has been reformed several times since its conception...
Uganda presumptive tax Tax administrationBlog
Dr Pia Rattenhuber on inequality in crises — an interviewHow do crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic influence inequality and the other way around? This year’s UN Day Dresden put a spotlight on “ Inequalities in Crises ”...
Inequality COVID-19 CrisisWorking Paper
An assessment of presumptive tax in Uganda: Evaluating the 2020 reform and four alternative reform scenarios using UGAMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for UgandaPresumptive tax, a final tax on business income, was introduced in Uganda in 1997. The latest reform to the regime in July 2020 sought to make the system more progressive, simpler, and fairer to small firms...
presumptive tax Tax administration Small businessPresentation
Pia Rattenhuber's keynote speech at UNU-FLORES United Nations Day 2021 commemorative eventUnited Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and Resources ( UNU-FLORES ) organizes a commemorative event in Dresden on the occasion of the UN day 2021. The topic of the event is Inequalities in crises. UNU-WIDER...
Policy seminar
Cash Plus dissemination event
Policy Brief
Tanzania, similar to most sub-Saharan countries, reported its first COVID-19 cases in March 2020...
COVID-19 Income distribution Poverty