How can poverty reduction be improved and at what cost? Available evidence suggests that social investment strategies … and employment policies are important but not sufficient. In order to reduce the number of people below the relative at-risk-of-poverty … paper we show that this is not a cheap option. We calculate the hypothetical cost of closing the poverty gap while …

these tax, transfer and minimum wage reforms on income inequality and poverty based on a microsimulation approach using … to substantially reduce the extent of income inequality and relative income poverty and the paper draws out how the two …Atkinson's book Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Harvard University Press, 2015) sets out a range of concrete proposals …

-wage earners would make inroads into poverty and inequality while encouraging formal work. This paper accompanies and extends the … that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and … the EUROMOD microsimulation models, it shows that the new guaranteed minimum income scheme introduced in 2019 …

and full-time work, respectively. We estimate labor supply reactions and welfare effects using a microsimulation model …

and full-time work, respectively. We estimate labor supply reactions and welfare effects using a microsimulation model …

contributions), we measure the reduction of income inequality due to the four structural dimensions of tax and transfer systems: the … notice (i) the diverse combinations of taxation and transfers that achieve the same reduction in inequality; (ii) the absence …

additional benefits to take account of the multidimensionality of poverty. We use the tax-benefit microsimulation model …A large share of the population in Zambia is living below the national poverty line. To reduce poverty, in 2019, the … MicroZAMOD to analyse the coverage and poverty impact of the current social protection system and to assess the extent to which …

Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all … effects on inequality and poverty that the elimination of current RMI and the introduction of the new IMV would generate …The "Minimum Vital Income" (IMV) constitutes a novelty in the panorama for fighting poverty by guaranteeing minimum …

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 …

model, to measure the effects of the RdC in terms of inequality reduction and, as a novel contribution, of absolute poverty … reducing inequality, and attenuating the incidence, and even more so the intensity, of absolute poverty. We also document how … minimum income scheme in Italy. In this paper, we use BIMic, the Bank of Italy’s static (non-behavioural) microsimulation …