During the last third of the twentieth century, political philosophers actively debated about
the content of distributive justice; the ruling ethical view of utilitarianism was challenged by …

This paper aims to provide an introduction to the current state of the art of EUROMOD, the
European Union tax-benefit microsimulation model. It explains the original motivations for …

The modern formulation of equality of opportunity emerges from discussions in political
philosophy from the second half of the twentieth century beginning with Rawls (1971) and …

It has become widely accepted that focusing exclusively on income growth may lead to a too
narrow-sighted measure of changes in well-being. People care about other dimensions of …

Individual well-being depends not only on income but also on other dimensions of life, such
as health, the quality of social relations and of the environment, employment, and job …

The encounter between microeconometric models of labour supply and the microsimulation
approach is the result of a long process. Large microsimulation models, as originally …

This article examines how distributional weights can be introduced into benefit–cost analysis
(BCA) by using insights from recent developments in welfare economics, in particular the …

Differences in preferences are important to explain variation in individuals' behavior. There
is, however, no consensus on how to take these differences into account when evaluating …

Labor supply decisions for a particular vocation require that an individual have a preference
for utilizing time in the vocation, and the distribution of preferences directly maps into its …

We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when controlling
for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor …