We examine disparities in Child Tax Credit (CTC) eligibility and anti-poverty effects since 1998 by family type …

other benefits, including greatly reduced administrative complexity and cost. Using microsimulation analysis in a … BI is set matters, but its exact specification matters even more. Which parts of the existing tax-benefit system are …

assess the role of tax-benefit systems to explain these differences. Using newly developed tax-benefit microsimulations for …, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Africa. These countries show contrasted situations in terms of income distribution. We … distribution between the contribution of tax-benefit policies versus the contribution of other factors (market income distributions …

likely first-round impacts. Neither the insights we get from (quasi-)experimental research nor those from (micro-)simulation …Basic income advocates see a universal income grant, no questions asked, as bringing many potential benefits, not in …

protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played a … rising poverty. As the crisis gained momentum, the action of automatic stabilisation mechanisms built into the national tax … and to what extent different socio-economic groups were affected. -- automatic stabilisers ; unemployment protection ; tax …

poverty effects of alternative policies are analyzed thanks to counterfactual simulations built using a micro-simulation model …In-work transfers are often seen as a good trade-off between redistribution and efficiency, as they alleviate poverty … existing scheme, the Family Income Supplement (FIS), and of its replacement by the refundable tax credit in force in the UK …