redistributive objectives and in reducing poverty. For the analysis we use the tax/benefit micro-simulation model EUROMOD. Due to the … groups at risk of poverty. In the period from 2003 to 2005 the tax reform 2004/05 was introduced and contributions to health … insurance were raised. We find that the measures had no significant impact on poverty and income distribution; however, in total …

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring …

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring …

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … remained incomplete and was unevenly spread over the population even 22 months after the start of the pandemic. Poverty more … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …

-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 … revenues and increase inequality, by reducing the progressivity of the personal tax system. A proposed reform package that …

suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …