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 …

to a substantial decrease in disposable income and a significant increase in poverty among persistent lone mothers … that the desired effects of the workfare reform were associated with the side-effects of income loss and increased poverty …

strong decline in child poverty and poverty amongst single parent households. In the latter group, a third of the headcount … poverty reduction (and half of the reduction in the depth of poverty) is on account of the very large incentive effect of …

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

We interpret social transfers broadly as a set of measures to reduce or relieve poverty, and study how well this … the countries for a range of definitions of the poverty threshold. The methods are also applied to two subpopulations of …

Recent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a … alleviating poverty among workers, both the policy options and constraints facing Continental European policymakers are … impact on in-work poverty but in settings where wages are compressed, as in Belgium, a severe trade-off between coverage and …

many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and despite the fact that population ageing will … fiscal burden on Ukraine, it significantly reduced the propensity of falling into poverty for those in retirement. …

terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with … poverty rates that are much higher than the rest of the population. Since independence, the Indian government has enacted …

poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It … or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country … what minimum wage policies alone can achieve in the fight against in-work poverty. The route of raising minimum wages to …