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      SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v4.2
      Xavier Jara, Fernando Martín, Lourdes Montesdeoca, Leonardo Vera, María Gabriela Colmenarez - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador. It describes the different tax–benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model takes advantage of these different provisions, and the database on which the model runs. It concludes with a validation...
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      Top earners and earnings inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic
      – Evidence from Ecuadorian administrative data
      Olivier Bargain, Paul Carrillo-Maldonado, Xavier Jara - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper aims to assess the extent to which top earners in Ecuador were affected by the COVID-19 crisis compared to other segments of the population. Our analysis uses administrative data for individuals affiliated to social security between January 2019 and December 2021. We identify the top 10...
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      Journal Article This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
      The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax–beneft policies during the COVID-19 pandemic
      – Evidence from Ecuador
      Xavier Jara, Lourdes Montesdeoca, Iva V. Tasseva - European Journal of Development Research , 2022
      By 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 impact of the economic shocks. Our results show a...
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      The employment and poverty effects of in-work policies in Ecuador
      UNU -WIDER - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      Governments in low- and middle-income countries face a trade-off between raising tax revenue to strengthen social protection and creating incentives to enter formal employment. In developed countries so called in-work transfers (i.e., social benefits paid upon condition of being employed) have been...
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      Microsimulation approaches to studying shocks and social protection in selected developing economies
      Kwabena Adu-Ababio - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper calculates automatic stabilization in Ghana, South Africa, and Ecuador to explain income cushioning amid income and demand shocks. Fiscal policies within these countries are also stress tested to gauge welfare contingencies and insurance. A discretionary action approach is adopted for...
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      Female labour supply and informal employment in Ecuador
      Xavier Jara, Pia Rattenhuber - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      Low- 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. However, empirical evidence on labour supply elasticities in the presence of informal employment remains scarce. This...
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      Discrete choice modelling of labour supply and informal employment using ECUAMOD
      Xavier Jara, Pia Rattenhuber - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      This 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. The approach makes use of ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit model for...
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      The tax-price elasticity of offshore tax avoidance
      – Evidence from Ecuadorian transaction data
      Jakob Brounstein - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      This study leverages a unique data set on the universe of transactions exiting the Ecuadorian economy to estimate the tax-price elasticity of demand for tax-sheltering activities using offshore fiscal havens. I determine this elasticity quasi-experimentally by comparing the evolution in funds sent...
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      SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v2.0
      Xavier Jara, Fernando Martín, Lourdes Montesdeoca, Leonardo Vera - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      View the latest ECUAMOD country report here. This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador. It describes the different tax–benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model takes advantage of these different provisions, and the database on which the...
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      Top income adjustments and tax reforms in Ecuador: an application of ECUAMOD
      Xavier Jara - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      This technical note has been produced alongside a WIDER working paper assessing the effects on income inequality and income tax simulations of adjusting top incomes of employees in survey data based on administrative tax records in Ecuador. The paper and the technical note are based on ECUAMOD...
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      Unemployment insurance and income protection in Ecuador: an application of ECUAMOD
      Xavier Jara - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      This note has been produced alongside a WIDER working paper assessing the effect of the Unemployment Insurance benefit on income protection in Ecuador. The aim of this note is to describe the methodology used to assess the effect of the Unemployment Insurance through the simulation of transitions...
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      What explains the gender gap in top incomes in developing countries?
      – Evidence from Ecuador
      Nicolás Oliva, Xavier Jara, Pia Rattenhuber - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. Ecuador represents an interesting case as it shares many trends with other countries in the region in terms of women’s status in the labour market. While we observe a significant increase in...
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      Ecuador’s social protection system failed during the pandemic
      – It needs a rethink
      Xavier Jara, Lourdes Montesdeoca, Iva V. Tasseva - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      Household incomes in Ecuador were badly hit by the pandemic, despite the government’s emergency grant to families. H Xavier Jara Tamayo (University of Essex), Lourdes Montesdeoca (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Ecuador) and Iva Tasseva (LSE) say the country needs to rethink its...
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      The role of tax and benefit policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador
      UNU -WIDER - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      What was the impact on earnings of the economic crisis caused by the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador? To what extent did social assistance programmes compensate household income losses? ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador, helps to assess the distributional...
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      The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax–benefit policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador
      Xavier Jara, Lourdes Montesdeoca, Iva V. Tasseva - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      This 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. Our results show a dramatic increase in income poverty and inequality between...
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      SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v1.5
      Xavier Jara, Lourdes Montesdeoca - UNU-WIDER , 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
      View the latest ECUAMOD country report here. This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador. The report describes the different tax–benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model takes advantage of these different provisions, and the database on...
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