headline indicators for income inequality and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss explanations for differences between … that should be borne in mind when using it and interpreting results. -- microsimulation ; redistribution ; tax …-benefit system ; poverty ; inequality …

-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social …

Eligibility and benefits for anti-poverty income transfers in the U.S. are based on both the means and the household … arrangement, and marital status. We find that the U.S. anti-poverty policy distorts the cohabitation/marriage decision of single … current design of anti-poverty income programs, and that the introduction of an EITC deduction on the earnings of secondary …

Official poverty methodologies differ from other poverty measurement methods in the sense that the official ones are … has the tradition and the practice to use relative poverty as "official" poverty estimates (Common Laeken indicators); the … USA use an objective method to estimate official poverty (Orshansky indicator). Although related, each approach portrays …

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to … inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle class' share. The tax policy effect accounts … for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up to 41% if we take into account behavioral …