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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 …
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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 …
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poverty among mothers after childbirth and divorce/separation. The analysis was carried out for twelve EU countries, which …. Countries with low post-childbirth poverty include those with an explicit pro-natalist orientation and socio-democratic regimes …. High post-childbirth poverty rates are found in pro-traditional and South European conservative countries, and especially …
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generosity has been conducted; their income redistribution and poverty reduction effects have also been investigated. Results …, achieving the highest poverty headcount reduction. …
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of changes in employment due to the COVID-19 crisis on inequality and poverty using the recently developed tax … measured by headcount and poverty gap increases because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic has also worsened inequality as …This study analyses the short-term distributional effects of COVID-19 on household incomes in Malawi. Growth is …
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This paper describes the construction of a microsimulation model for South Africa (SAMOD), which is based upon the EUROMOD platform. The paper discusses the need for a new microsimulation model in South Africa, the reasons why EUROMOD was a particularly suitable candidate as a basis for the new...
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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 … Financial Statement in 2014 would result in real benefit cuts and increase in child poverty. However, triple lock indexation of …
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This article studies the impact of design characteristics of in-work benefits on employment and poverty in an … analysis, numerous trade-offs are uncovered: not only between employment and poverty goals, but also within employment … incentives itself (extensive vs. intensive margin). Taking account of behavioural reactions attenuates the impact on poverty …
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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 …
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