Herwig Immervoll
Research Fellow
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Herwig Immervoll is Senior Economist and Head of Employment-Oriented Social Policies at the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Foundation of International Studies on Social Security (FISS), and a Research Associate/Affiliate at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER, University of Essex), at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna, and at the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM), Canberra. Before joining the OECD, Herwig was a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, where he had a major role in developing EUROMOD, the EU-wide tax-benefit model. He is Austrian and holds a PhD in economics and a Masters degree in business administration. His research interests include analysing trends in social and fiscal policies and their effects on poverty, income distribution and labour markets. He has worked extensively on microsimulation methods and their application to policy analysis and evaluation. Current ongoing work includes safety-net benefits and minimum-income protection, rights and responsibilities in social protection systems, gender inequalities, and the implications of the economic crisis for employment and social policies. Herwig joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2004. |
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Minimum-Income Benefits in OECD Countries: Policy Design, Effectiveness and Challenges (published in D. Besharov and K. Couch (eds.), Measuring Poverty, Income Inequality, and Social Exclusion. Lessons from Europe. Oxford University Press, 2010. Also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper) |
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An Evaluation of the Tax-Transfer Treatment of Married Couples in European Countries (also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper) |
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Inequalities Within Couples: Market Incomes and the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe (revised version forthcoming in: Eastern Economic Journal) |
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How Tight Are Safety-Nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish Register Data |
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Minimum Wages, Minimum Labour Costs and the Tax Treatment of Low-Wage Employment (corrected and updated version published in OECD (2007), Taxing Wages 2005/2006) |
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An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries (also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper) |
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The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty (published in: Klasen, S. and F. Nowak-Lehmann (eds.), Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America, MIT Press, 2009) |
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Can Parents Afford to Work? Childcare Costs, Tax-Benefit Policies and Work Incentives (extended and updated version published in OECD (2007), Benefits and Wages: OECD Indicators) |
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Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalising Properties of Taxes and Benefits (published in: Papadimitriou, D.B. (ed.), The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation, Palgrave MacMillan 2006) |
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Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Microsimulation Analysis (published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (516), 1-44) |
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A Good Time for Making Work Pay? Taking Stock of In-Work Benefits and Related Measures across the OECD (also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper) |
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