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

On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …

complementary approaches: a standard approach based on reported incomes in survey data, and a microsimulation approach, where taxes … microsimulation procedures, we may expect the two approaches to generate slightly different results. In fact, we find reasonably …

We examine the determinants of income mobility and inequality in a Ramsey model with elastic labor supply and … relationship between mobility and inequality is complex. For example, a reduction in the interest rate and an increase in the wage … rate reduce capital income inequality and allow upward mobility of the ability-rich. However, the increase in the labor …

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of … the GFC. This increase is due to a rise in market income inequality that was compounded by a reduction in fiscal … redistributive efficiency. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to deepen income inequality, increasing the room for redistributive policies …

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve … along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in inequality due to …

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve … along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in inequality due to …

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary … State contributes directly to a very large share of inequality. Factors associated to work in the public sector - wages and … and, taken as a whole, tends to increase inequality. Redistributive mechanisms that could reverse this inequality, such as …

the distributional consequences of aggregate crises and the role of inequality and social insurance in shaping aggregate … in inequality following a crisis, as a result of an increase in the probabilities of becoming or remaining unemployed …

The hypothesis tested in this paper is whether the increasing inequality in recent years has had a significant impact …