Minimum Income (MI) schemes are essential to alleviate poverty and guarantee a last-resort safety net to households … with insufficient resources. Assessing the effectiveness of MI schemes in poverty reduction is challenging. Studies based … receipts. Studies based on microsimulation models tend to overestimate these benefits mainly due to lack of data on take-up and …

policies in Estonia, Italy and the United Kingdom. Disentangling the contribution to inequality and poverty of each housing … impact on inequality in Estonia and on both inequality and relative poverty in Italy. In all three countries, housing … the housing advantage of homeowners and social tenants. We use the Euromod microsimulation model to simulate housing …

paving the way for economic recovery, fiscal consolidation and reducing looming inequality problems. The present work sets …

Southern European Countries using EUROMOD, the EU-wide tax-benefit microsimulation model. In-Work Benefits (IWBs) are means … the labour market participation of women in couples is of fundamental concern. -- work benefits ; fiscal microsimulation … ; poverty ; female labour market participation …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

, poverty rates have stagnated and in some countries even increased. In the welfare state literature, it has been argued that … these disappointing poverty trends may be partly attributable to the reforming of traditional welfare state programmes into … for a linkage between stagnating or increasing poverty trends and shifts in expenditures to new welfare state programmes …

We assess the impact of redistributive policy on child poverty across 29 European welfare states, using EU SILC 2005 … children. Pensions are generally neglected in analyses on child poverty, but are relevant through the presence of two …