Dual or multiple earnership has been considered an important factor to prevent in-work poverty. The aim of this paper … is to quantify the impact of second earnership on the risk of in-work poverty and the role of the tax-benefit systems in … in preventing in-work poverty. This is done by simulating a counterfactual scenario where second earners become …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

-age beneficiaries still live in poverty and the recent fall in oil prices has put increasing pressure on government expenditures to …. Our results show that increasing pension assistance to match the level of the poverty line in Ecuador would reduce elderly … poverty by 40% and would take 18% of old-age beneficiaries out of poverty. We analyze the effect of additional hypothetical …

that eliminating all fuel subsidies would increase poverty and inequality due to the importance of domestic gas subsidy for … low-income households. Eliminating only gasoline and diesel subsidies would not impact poverty and inequality, while …