Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of …

(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers ́labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers. …

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …

Taxes and cash transfers reduce income inequality more in France than elsewhere in the OECD, because of the large size …

In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare … examples of high compliance exert no influence; (iv) tax evasion is more frequent in France and the Netherlands; Walloons evade …

This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are … interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were … convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to an acceptable margin, there appears to be little concrete policy …