Proponents of a basic income (BI) claim that it could bring significant reductions in financial poverty, on top of many … other benefits, including greatly reduced administrative complexity and cost. Using microsimulation analysis in a … comparative two-country setting, we show that the potential poverty-reducing impact of BI strongly depends on exactly how and …

overcome the lack of data by proposing a dynamic calibrated microsimulation approach to generate counterfactual income … than at the bottom. Despite this, inequality in market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient increased over the …

Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …

responses in microsimulation models. The paper focuses attention on two methodologies for modelling labour supply: the discrete …

inequality amplifies the negative income gradient, and that the rich are no more empathetic towards children than they are …

recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and … reduction reduces statis inefficiency. On the other hand, standard redistribution also reduces the level of R and D because it … that standard redistribution always dominates limitations to IPRs. …