Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of …

developing countries and highlights the role of microsimulation techniques to characterize how different African countries can … learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …

developing countries and highlights the role of microsimulation techniques to characterize how different African countries can … learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

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 …-benefit changes on inequality when evaluated against a distributionally-neutral benchmark, i.e. a situation where tax …

inequality, which combines changes in policy structure (rules, rates, etc.) and changes in monetary parameters (benefit amounts …-tax income (distribution, composition, demographic structure, etc.). We conduct this exercise for a battery of poverty and … inequality measures and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order. …

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 …-benefit changes on inequality when evaluated against a distributionally-neutral benchmark, i.e., a situation where tax …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …