effective in alleviating poverty and inequality than changes to the structure of policies. In fact, most of the structural … changes that governments introduced, especially in the 2007-11 crisis-onset period, had poverty and inequality …This paper examines the extent to which tax and benefit policy changes introduced in the period 2001-11 had a poverty …

rent in the tax base might affect inequality in each of the countries considered. Housing taxation appears to be a … promising avenue for raising additional revenues, or lightening taxation of labour, with no inequality-increasing side-effects. …

rent in the tax base might affect inequality in each of the countries considered. Housing taxation appears to be a … promising avenue for raising additional revenues, or lightening taxation of labour, with no inequality-increasing side-effects. …

rent in the tax base might affect inequality in each of the countries considered. Housing taxation appears to be a … promising avenue for raising additional revenues, or lightening taxation of labour, with no inequality-increasing side-effects. …

including net imputed rent in the tax base might affect inequality in each of the countries considered. Housing taxation appears … to be a promising avenue for raising additional revenues, or lightening taxation of labour, with no inequality …

including net imputed rent in the tax base might affect inequality in each of the countries considered. Housing taxation appears … to be a promising avenue for raising additional revenues, or lightening taxation of labour, with no inequality …

practice. The results show that despite different fiscal effects, policies overall mostly reduced poverty and inequality and …, but generally also contributed more to poverty and inequality reduction than structural policy reforms. … countries. We use the standard microsimulation-based decomposition method, separating further the effect of structural policy …

complementary approaches: a standard approach based on reported incomes in survey data, and a microsimulation approach, where taxes … microsimulation procedures, we may expect the two approaches to generate slightly different results. In fact, we find reasonably …

consistent results, in terms of both inequality measures and poverty rates. To the extent that the results differ, we explore the … two complementary approaches: a standard approach based on reported incomes in survey data, and a microsimulation approach … over-estimated in microsimulation procedures. However, we find that the two approaches do in fact produce reasonably …