Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/91647 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
EUROMOD Working Paper No. EM10/12
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
This paper evaluates the redistributive effect of a comprehensive set of housing-related policies, taking into account the housing advantage of homeowners and social tenants. We use the Euromod microsimulation model to simulate housing policies in Estonia, Italy and the United Kingdom. Disentangling the contribution to inequality and poverty of each housing-related policy, we find that the current design of property taxes is not progressive and that other housing policies have a limited impact on inequality in Estonia and on both inequality and relative poverty in Italy. In all three countries, housing-related policies favor the elderly.
Subjects: 
housing policies
imputed rent
inequality
microsimulation
JEL: 
H23
H53
I38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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