public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income …-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social … protection measures on the income distribution among and between different age groups. We use information from the late 1990s to …

cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status – shorter individuals show a stronger …

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

Almost all OECD countries operate comprehensive minimum-income programmes for working-age individuals, either as last …-resort safety nets alongside primary income replacement benefits, or as the principal instrument for delivering social protection … incomes from other sources. This paper provides an overview of social assistance and other minimum-income programmes in OECD …

-benefit systems in most OECD countries reduce income disparities very significantly, the Brazilian government has been much less … successful in alleviating inequality and poverty. Focussing on taxes and cash transfers, this paper investigates the impact of … the government budget on the income distribution in Brazil, and evaluates its efficiency and effectiveness in reducing …

The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social … discuss the poverty implications of our results. …

uncertain labour markets, careful and continuous monitoring of the effectiveness of income support is a key input into an … safety net benefits. It focusses on minimum-income benefits (MIB) and other non-contributory transfers and relies on data on … levels differ enormously across countries – for instance, more than four out of five low-income workless one …