a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

of changes in employment due to the COVID-19 crisis on inequality and poverty using the recently developed tax … recently released Integrated Household Survey which was collected just before the COVID-19 crisis. We find that the poverty … measured by headcount and poverty gap increases because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic has also worsened inequality as …

results are interpreted in terms of poverty and inequality statistics while closely looking into the assumptions of the … microsimulation models. In the first scenario a modest level of guaranteed minimum income is feasible, decreasing both poverty and … unrealistically high tax rates, especially for Italy. The impact on poverty and inequality of the HNIT scheme is markedly higher for …

Swedish work-line policy increased the risk of poverty by 1.0 percentage point and the Gini coefficient by 0.4. In Sweden, the … behavioural effects did not fully offset the negative static effects on the risk-of-poverty rate and inequality. From a policy … perspective, the results indicate that the Nordic model is resilient. In Sweden, a significant increase in the risk of poverty …

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 …

income to 1 percentage point, and will reduce poverty rate by 1.1 percentage points (at a constant poverty line), with …