This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … the Global South. Using national survey data and tax-benefit microsimulation models from the SOUTHMOD project, we provide … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of …

We study a set of hypothetical reforms of child benefits in Germany, using a static tax-benefit microsimulation model … benefits are increased, the effect on overall income inequality is more pronounced at the cost of reduced labour supply …

these tax, transfer and minimum wage reforms on income inequality and poverty based on a microsimulation approach using …Atkinson's book Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Harvard University Press, 2015) sets out a range of concrete proposals … aimed at reducing income inequality, which cover a very broad span but include major changes to the income tax and social …

would be possible with either an NIT or UBI. A static microsimulation, using the EUROMOD model, is conducted on the HNIT … 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 …

applying a standard static microsimulation model TAZMOD v1.8. The simulations model two indirect tax reforms involving changes …

Over the past 20 years, microsimulation models have come to play an important role in policy analysis, identifying … benefit model. The present paper reports results from such a prototype European tax-benefit microsimulation model. The model …

lack of timely household micro data, using microsimulation techniques with up-to-date information on policy rules enables … inequality levels in 10 EU countries, as well as track most recent trends by evaluating policy effects in 2013-2014. We identify …

of this group, and we use the microsimulation model EUROMOD to examine the extent to which differences in child benefits …