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 …

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 …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

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

is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …

rent in the tax base might affect inequality in each of the countries considered. Housing taxation appears to be a … promising avenue for raising additional revenues, or lightening taxation of labour, with no inequality-increasing side-effects. …

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

labour supply model this paper provides microsimulation results of the effects of introducing different schemes of in …-efficient reform. Minimum wages are ineffective in fighting poverty. …