Belgium

Latest country report

How the Belgian tax-benefit system is modelled in EUROMOD, including an overview of the system and recent changes: 2015-2018 (EUROMOD version I1.0)

Meet the national team

The Belgium national teams are based at the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven

The current team members are:

University of Antwerp -Jonas Boone, Johannes Derboven, Lien Van Cant, Josefine Vanhille & Gerlinde Verbist

KU Leuven - André Decoster, Liebrecht Desadeer, Sebastiaan Maes, Toon Vanheukelom & Stijn Van Houtven

FLEMOSI

FLEMOSI - FLEmish MOdels of SImulation - is a set of openly-accessible micro-simulation tools for Flanders. The MEFISTO tool is based on the EUROMOD "engine" and allows users to simulate Belgian and Flemish policy rules and estimate the effects of changes.

Working Papers

Single country analysis
  1. Piecemeal modelling of the effects of joint direct and indirect tax reforms

    Bart Capéau, André Decoster, Sebastiaan Maes, Toon Vanheukelom

  2. Financial work incentives and the longterm unemployed: the case of Belgium

    Diego Collado

  3. Getting tired of work, or re-tiring in absence of decent job opportunities? Some insights from an estimated Random Utility/Random Opportunity model on Belgian data

    Bart Capéau, André Decoster

Cross country comparative
  1. The probability of poverty for mothers after childbirth and divorce in Europe: the role of social stratification and tax-benefit policies

    Daria Popova, Jekaterina Navicke

  2. Indexing out of poverty? Fiscal drag and benefit erosion in cross-national perspective

    Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, Iva Valentinova Tasseva

  3. To what extent do welfare states compensate for the cost of children? A hypothetical household approach to policy evaluations

    Tess Penne, Tine Hufkens, Tim Goedemé, Bérénice Storms

List all EUROMOD Working Papers that include analysis of Belgium