distribution of income. In order to decompose the impact of components of income, we utilised a microsimulation methodology the EU … our methodology. We utilised the framework to model changes to the level of income inequality from the period just before … inequality fell in the early part of the crisis, but rose steadily and then rapidly. Much of this change was due to rising …

compensated by a revenue-neutral reduction in income-related taxes. Based on a dual data base and a microsimulation model of labor … on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

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 … effects by producing counterfactual (no reform) scenarios using tax-benefit microsimulation and representative household …

developing countries and highlights the role of microsimulation techniques to characterize how different African countries can … learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …

-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the … (benefit amounts, tax bands, etc.), and all other changes in the underlying population (market income inequality, demographic …-benefit changes on inequality when evaluated against a distributionally-neutral benchmark, i.e., a situation where tax …

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

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

inequality and poverty. We present BRAHMS, a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Brazil and illustrate its use by … evaluating the impact of policy on economic inequality. It is argued that microsimulation provides a valuable analytical tool for … successful in alleviating inequality and poverty. Focussing on taxes and cash transfers, this paper investigates the impact of …

overcome the lack of data by proposing a dynamic calibrated microsimulation approach to generate counterfactual income … than at the bottom. Despite this, inequality in market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient increased over the …