counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the …. -- tax-benefit policy ; inequality ; poverty ; decomposition ; microsimulation …

The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these …

The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social … discuss the poverty implications of our results. -- Take-up ; Social assistance ; Poverty ; Register data …

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 …

This paper examines multidimensional poverty for three waves of a cohort of Irish children ranging from ages 9 to 17 … is higher for children whose mothers have lower levels of education, with net movements into rather than out of poverty. …. Poverty is measured over the dimensions of health, education and family resources and both unidimensional and multidimensional …

among families with children and pensioners. -- Tax-benefit policy ; Inequality ; Poverty ; Shapley decomposition …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 …

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 … policy changes. -- Tax-benefit policy ; Inequality ; Poverty ; Shapley value decomposition ; Labour supply ; Behavioural …