. -- tax-benefit policy ; inequality ; poverty ; decomposition ; microsimulation … 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 …

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 …

policy changes. -- Tax-benefit policy ; Inequality ; Poverty ; Shapley value decomposition ; Labour supply ; Behavioural … 1998-2001 period have offset the increase in inequality that would have occurred otherwise. They also contribute to a … strong decline in child poverty and poverty amongst single parent households. In the latter group, a third of the headcount …

This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … from the Household Budget Survey to calculate poverty indices. The result of the Shapley value decomposition of poverty … bringing about the decline in poverty. This suggests that the drastic fall in absolute poverty over the survey period could be …

paper, we utilize Consumption Dominance curve techniques to analyse the impact of marginal indirect tax changes on poverty … marginal tax changes which will reduce poverty for some selected commodities over a broad class of poverty measures and poverty …

symptoms of human poverty. This implies obstacles in gaining full and free access to education, professional health care … development of countries. The aim of the analysis is to identify the magnitude of socio-economic deprivation (human poverty) and …

Poverty – differently defined and measured – still remains one the crucial parts of the world development debate. It … an specific approach to poverty issues, treating low incomes as consequence – not a cause – of poverty. The main target … of the work is twofold. Firstly we aim to develop a new complex measure of relative poverty to set the most recent …

period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the …