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 …

erences in the distribution of income and wages using county-level data from Germany. Chapter 2 analyzes the impact of the so …-called Hartz reforms on income inequality in German regions. Chapter 3 investigates the long-term effect of university openings on …

reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

economies: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. We show that the short-term impact on income inequality and poverty can be … universal basic income that would have produced the same reduction in the poverty gap as actual policies would have cost …

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

transfers that do not include pensions, exert a prominent impact on inequality and poverty. Also significant is the effect of … the GDP per capita. The impact of employment on inequality and poverty is not empirically sound. The same holds for the …Employing panel data techniques, we investigate the macroeconomic and institutional determinants of inequality and …

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries … analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates of the poverty reduction impact are presented in a normalized and un …

tariffs favours exportoriented sectors and all imports increase. Poverty falls in the economy while inequality hardly changes …The paper uses a micro-simulation computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to study the impact on poverty of trade … liberalisation in Zimbabwe. The model incorporates 14006 households derived from the 1995 Poverty Assessment Study Survey (PASS). The …