A Note on Automatic Stabilizers in Austria: Evidence from ITABENA

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In the Great Recession market income of the households in Austria has been reduced and unemployment increased. In this paper we examine the impact of automatic stabilizers on cushioning such income losses. We use ITABENA, an Austrian tax-benefit model, to analyze how shocks on market income and employment are mitigated by taxes and transfers. In the case of a proportional income shock 46 percent of the shock will be absorbed by automatic stabilizers in Austria. For the unemployment shocks automatic stabilizers absorb 68 percent. Automatic stabilizers increase the redistributive effects of the Austrian tax benefit system. We find that recent changes in the income tax code have almost no impact on the size of automatic stabilizers in Austria.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: NRN Working Paper, NRN: The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State ; No. 1203

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Business Fluctuations; Cycles ; Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Stabilization; Treasury Policy ; Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
• Subject: automatic stabilization ; microsimulation ; tax reforms

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hofer, Helmut ; Hanappi, Tibor ; Müllbacher, Sandra
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Johannes Kepler University Linz, NRN - The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State
• (where): Linz
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/115081
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET