-wage earners would make inroads into poverty and inequality while encouraging formal work. This paper accompanies and extends the … that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and … the EUROMOD microsimulation models, it shows that the new guaranteed minimum income scheme introduced in 2019 …

and contribute to reducing poverty. The reform could reduce the number of workless households by between 45 000 and 240 … entitlements for low income families will further reduce poverty and increase equality. However, the cost of childcare remains high …

Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards …. While most of the inequality originates from the labour market, wealth – and thus capital income – is also highly …

Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards …. While most of the inequality originates from the labour market, wealth – and thus capital income – is also highly …

empirical analysis is based on a behavioral microsimulation model, which integrates an empirical household labor-supply model …

of Bofinger et al. (2006). We employ a microsimulation model for estimating labour supply as well as distributional and … effects. The distributional analysis reveals an overall increase in poverty rates caused by lower earnings disregards as well …

Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities …. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … particularly affected. A comprehensive approach is required to ensure an effective transition out of poverty and social exclusion …