This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social …

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 …

the housing advantage of homeowners and social tenants. We use the Euromod microsimulation model to simulate housing … policies in Estonia, Italy and the United Kingdom. Disentangling the contribution to inequality and poverty of each housing … impact on inequality in Estonia and on both inequality and relative poverty in Italy. In all three countries, housing …

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 …

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

-benefit microsimulation model for Tanzania. The paper provides an account of the current tax-benefit system in Tanzania and introduces the …

Microsimulation studies typically assume that all entitlements to means-tested benefits are actually claimed by …

tax-benefit microsimulation model for Russia (RUSMOD) which is based upon the EUROMOD platform. RUSMOD simulates the …