Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … among families with children and pensioners. -- Tax-benefit policy ; inequality ; poverty ; Shapley decomposition … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … among families with children and pensioners. -- Tax-bene t policy ; inequality ; poverty ; Shapley decomposition … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … among families with children and pensioners. -- Tax-benefit policy ; inequality ; poverty ; Shapley decomposition … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and …

results are interpreted in terms of poverty and inequality statistics while closely looking into the assumptions of the … microsimulation models. In the first scenario a modest level of guaranteed minimum income is feasible, decreasing both poverty and … unrealistically high tax rates, especially for Italy. The impact on poverty and inequality of the HNIT scheme is markedly higher for …

behavioural effects did not fully offset the negative static effects on the risk-of-poverty rate and inequality. From a policy … Swedish work-line policy increased the risk of poverty by 1.0 percentage point and the Gini coefficient by 0.4. In Sweden, the … perspective, the results indicate that the Nordic model is resilient. In Sweden, a significant increase in the risk of poverty …

overcome the lack of data by proposing a dynamic calibrated microsimulation approach to generate counterfactual income … than at the bottom. Despite this, inequality in market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient increased over the …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … relationship between the concentration of cash transfers net of direct taxes and their effectiveness in terms of reducing poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …

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

middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances … margins of the poverty line were found to be small and robustness and sensitivity tests were done to accompany simulation …. Simulations found that individual level allowances reduce poverty more than household level allowances. Such individual level …