Herwig Immervoll

Herwig Immervoll is an Economist with the OECD Social Policy Division. His responsibilities include analysing and monitoring current trends in tax- and benefit policies and their effects on poverty, income distribution and labour markets. As one essential input into these analyses, the Social Policy Division develops and maintains tax-benefit models for 28 OECD countries. The indicators produced by these models include net replacement rates and marginal effective tax rates and are widely used in policy analyses within the OECD and outside.
 
Mr Immervoll has previously been a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and a Research Fellow at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics. Relevant recent publications include
 
• OECD, 2004, Benefits and Wages, OECD: Paris.
• Immervoll H, P Marianna and M Mira D'Ercole, 2004, “Benefit Coverage Rates and Household Typologies: Scope and Limitations of Tax-Benefit Indicators”. OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Paris.
• Immervoll H, forthcoming, “Average and marginal effective tax rates facing workers in the EU. A micro-level analyis of levels, distributions and driving factors”. OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Paris.
• Immervoll H and C O'Donoghue, forthcoming, “Employment Transitions in the European Union. Levels, Distributions and Determining Factors of Net Replacement Rates”. OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Paris.
• Immervoll H, H J Kleven, C T Kreiner and E Saez, 2004, "Welfare Reform in Europe: A Micro-simulation Analysis”, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4324, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London.
• Immervoll H and C O'Donoghue, 2004, "What Difference does a Job Make? The Income Consequences of Joblessness in Europe", in: Gallie, D. (ed.), Resisting Marginalisation: Unemployment Experience and Social Policy in the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 105-39.
• Carone, G., A Salomaki, H Immervoll and D Paturot, 2004, "Indicators of Unemployment and Low-Wage Traps (Marginal Effective Tax Rates on Employment Incomes)”, OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No. 18, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Paris (also published as European Economy Economic Papers No. 197, European Commission, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, Brussels).