-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 …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

inequality of market incomes is substantially reduced by large social transfers, but the risk of relative poverty still affects … tackle poverty traps would both reduce inequality and improve the labour supply of residents. Strong activation policies are …Luxembourg is a rich and fast-growing country. However, inequality of disposable incomes has trended up modestly over …

In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been … in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the … of other social benefits. A set of new indicators of nationwide inequality, based on household survey data, suggests that …