Inequality and Structural Reforms: Methodological Concerns

In the context of the rising importance of inequality in the European Commission's political agenda, DG ECFIN organized the workshop: "Inequality and Structural Reforms: Methodological Concerns". The workshop has been conceived as an expert meeting in which the state of art literature, both methodological and empirical, has been discussed which resulted in a lively and proactive debate. The debate was aimed to understand how the current methodologies can be improved and how can they learn from each other, which are the limitations in terms of data availability and what are the avenues of further research. All this in view of improving the theoretical and empirical tools to measure the impact of structural reforms on inequality and of better designing policies to enhance equity while fostering growth. The workshop gathered lead academics and speakers from research centres along with 60 participants from academia, international institutions and think tanks.

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• 8 December 2017
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Inequality and Structural Reforms: Methodological Concerns and Lessons from Policy - Workshop Proceedings

A collection of contributions given during the workshops on structural reforms organised by DG ECFIN on 16 May and 19 June 2017.

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What to measure and how: methodological concerns by Mary Veronica Tovšak Pleterski (DG ECFIN)

Session I – Analysis of labour and product market reforms

• A general equilibrium (LM and PM reforms) perspective to inequalityby Jean-Olivier Hairault (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
• The effects of labour market reforms: an agent-based model approachby Giovanni Dosi (Institute of Economics, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies - Pisa)
• Empirical analysis of the distributional impact of structural reformsby Orsetta Causa and Mikkel Hermansen (OECD Economics Department)
• General discussion - introductory comments by Zsolt Darvas (Bruegel)

Session II – Analysis of tax reforms

• Implications from panel data techniquesby Andreas Peichl (Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW))
• Synthetic Control Method: an empirical analysis of tax reformsby Daniel Waldenstrom (Paris School of Economics, CEPR and IZA)
• General discussion- introductory comments by Elvire Guillaud (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Video of  the workshop

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