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 …

practice. The results show that despite different fiscal effects, policies overall mostly reduced poverty and inequality and …, but generally also contributed more to poverty and inequality reduction than structural policy reforms. …

household incomes and in the prevention of child poverty across Europe. In one group of countries family benefits appear to have … a significant effect on the protection of children from financial poverty. The UK and the Netherlands are both members … explain the very different level of child poverty in the two countries. We also explore the effect of "swapping" child benefit …

gainers and losers, and characterising the effect on incentives. A natural development of national models is a Europe-wide tax …

these tax, transfer and minimum wage reforms on income inequality and poverty based on a microsimulation approach using … to substantially reduce the extent of income inequality and relative income poverty and the paper draws out how the two …

We provide evidence of the relative cost-effectiveness of different types of policy instrument in reducing poverty or … find that the assessment of the most cost effective instrument may depend on the measure of poverty used and the direction … and scale of the change. Nevertheless, our results indicate that the options that reduce poverty most cost-effectively in …

future research, where each approach may inform improvements in the other. -- income ; microsimulation ; poverty ; inequality …