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- Monday 19 June 2017, 14:00 (CEST)
- Brussels, Belgium
- Live streaming available
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Webstreaming[AC(3] (EC staff only)
Proceedings (to be published after the summer break)
Session I – Inequality and Structural Reforms [AC(4]
- The role of labour and product market reforms by Alain De Serres (OECD)
- A QUEST model based assessment of the functional income distribution of structural reforms by Jan in't Veld (DG ECFIN)
- How do taxes redistribute income? by Bert Brys (OECD)
- Evidence from the EUROMOD microsimulation model by Salvador Barrios (JRC – IPTS)
Session II – Redistributive structural reforms: policy evidences from MSs
- Trade-offs between employment and wages in recessions: evidence from labour market reforms by Pedro Da Silva Martins (Previous Portuguese Secretary of State and currently Professor at Queen Mary University of London)
- Structural Reforms – an Irish case study 2008-2016 by Pat Casey (Department of Finance of Ireland and Member of EPC)
- Minimum income scheme reform in Latvia - quo vadis? by Ieva Jaunzeme (Head of the administration at the Ministry of Economics of Latvia)
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[AC(3]https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/workshop-inequality-and-structural-reforms-lessons-from-policy
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Practical information
- When
- Monday 19 June 2017, 14:00 (CEST)
- Where
- Charlemagne Building, room DurieuxCharlemagne Building, room Durieux, Brussels, Belgium
Report
As the debate on income inequality and on the instruments to tackle it is becoming more and more important in the policy field, DG ECFIN organized the workshop “Inequality and Structural Reforms: Lessons from Policy”. The Workshop has been conceived to bring together economists and policy experts with the aim of understanding how structural reforms can improve the fairness of income distribution and, in turn, economic performance. The workshop developed in two sessions. The first one was devoted to the description of the major empirical results derived from modelling (QUEST and EUROMOD) and from econometric exercises (OECD). In the second session policy experts from Portugal, Ireland and Latvia shared their policy experience and presented the structural reforms implemented (or planned) in their countries highlighting the effect in terms of income distribution.
Documents:
Webstreaming (EC staff only)

A collection of contributions given during the workshops on structural reforms organised by DG ECFIN on 16 May and 19 June 2017.
Copyright rests with the author. All rights reserved
Session I – Inequality and Structural Reforms
- The role of labour and product market reformsby Alain De Serres (OECD)
- A QUEST model based assessment of the functional income distribution of structural reformsby Jan in't Veld (DG ECFIN)
- How do taxes redistribute income?byBert Brys (OECD)
- Evidence from the EUROMOD microsimulation modelby Salvador Barrios (JRC – IPTS)
Session II – Redistributive structural reforms: policy evidences from MSs
- Trade-offs between employment and wages in recessions: evidence from labour market reformsby Pedro Da Silva Martins (Previous Portuguese Secretary of State and currently Professor at Queen Mary University of London)
- Structural Reforms – an Irish case study 2008-2016byPat Casey (Department of Finance of Ireland and Member of EPC)
- Minimum income scheme reform in Latvia - quo vadis?byIeva Jaunzeme (Head of the administration at the Ministry of Economics of Latvia)
Contact: ECFIN-B2-Workshopec [dot] europa [dot] eu (ECFIN-B2-Workshop[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)