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 …

This paper provides an account of the construction of a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Namibia (NAMOD) which is …, the income data in the NHIES is problematic and so analysis of the impact of policies on poverty should be treated with …

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 …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … among families with children and pensioners. -- Tax-benefit policy ; inequality ; poverty ; Shapley decomposition … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and …

policies in Estonia, Italy and the United Kingdom. Disentangling the contribution to inequality and poverty of each housing … impact on inequality in Estonia and on both inequality and relative poverty in Italy. In all three countries, housing … the housing advantage of homeowners and social tenants. We use the Euromod microsimulation model to simulate housing …

Using the tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD and Family Resources Survey, we investigate what would have … happened to child poverty in the UK in the periods 2010/11-2015/16 and 2015/16-2020/21 under a range of different indexation … scenarios of children's benefits. We find that between 2010/11 and 2015/16 both the relative and absolute child poverty rates …

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 …

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

Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all … effects on inequality and poverty that the elimination of current RMI and the introduction of the new IMV would generate …The "Minimum Vital Income" (IMV) constitutes a novelty in the panorama for fighting poverty by guaranteeing minimum …

impact of the tax-benefit policies on income distribution and poverty in Russia. This paper describes the construction of a … tax-benefit microsimulation model for Russia (RUSMOD) which is based upon the EUROMOD platform. RUSMOD simulates the …