The "Minimum Vital Income" (IMV) constitutes a novelty in the panorama for fighting poverty by guaranteeing minimum … incomes after the COVID-19 crisis. This work simulates the distributional and poverty effects of the IMV introduction across … Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all …

The at-risk-of-poverty rate is one of the three indicators used for monitoring progress towards the Europe 2020 poverty … policies. However, due to complicated nature of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) poverty …") the current at-risk-of-poverty rate for the European Union (EU) countries based on EU-SILC microdata from a previous …

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 …

Dual or multiple earnership has been considered an important factor to prevent in-work poverty. The aim of this paper … is to quantify the impact of second earnership on the risk of in-work poverty and the role of the tax-benefit systems in … in preventing in-work poverty. This is done by simulating a counterfactual scenario where second earners become …

This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the … poverty reducing as the one in force (or more in some dimensions), and a generator of greater welfare. …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of … income support and tax credits not been implemented. These reforms have also contributed to substantially reduce poverty …

How can poverty reduction be improved and at what cost? Available evidence suggests that social investment strategies … and employment policies are important but not sufficient. In order to reduce the number of people below the relative at-risk-of-poverty … paper we show that this is not a cheap option. We calculate the hypothetical cost of closing the poverty gap while …