-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social …

inequality and poverty. We present BRAHMS, a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Brazil and illustrate its use by … successful in alleviating inequality and poverty. Focussing on taxes and cash transfers, this paper investigates the impact of … evaluating the impact of policy on economic inequality. It is argued that microsimulation provides a valuable analytical tool for …

structure. We explore their direct impacts on cross-sectional income inequality (termed "redistributive effect" for the purpose … of this paper) using EUROMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union. This relies on harmonised …

four countries selected on the basis of their diverse pension systems and patterns of poverty among the elderly: Denmark …

output drop and weak governance, have led to a sharp rise in inequality among households. Sharp inequities have arisen not … the main driving forces of income inequality in Georgia, as it emerges from the analysis of the first representative … survey of incomes and expenditures of Georgian households in 1996-1997. The paper finds that the level of inequality for …

Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for … Turkey. The paper finds that Turkey does not face a problem of absolute poverty by the standards of a developing country (in …

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the … (benefit amounts, tax bands, etc.), and all other changes in the underlying population (market income inequality, demographic …-benefit changes on inequality when evaluated against a distributionally-neutral benchmark, i.e., a situation where tax …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of …