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 …

This study assesses the role of social spending in relation to child poverty in European welfare states. Using macro … are targeted. We separately estimate the effect of pension benefits on child poverty, as the prevalence of … substantially reduce child poverty. Increased targeting also leads to lower poverty rates, but the effect sizes are more modest by …