services sector is split up into formal and informal activities to account for the fact that poverty is largely confined to the …

optimal anti-poverty budgetary rules for two kinds of intervention, direct income transfers and wage employment programmes. …

affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …

-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … discretionary tax-benefit policies in alleviating the shock. Our analysis shows modest increases in headcount poverty rates and … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …

The "Minimum Vital Income" (IMV) constitutes a novelty in the panorama for fighting poverty by guaranteeing minimum … incomes after the COVID-19 crisis. This work simulates the distributional and poverty effects of the IMV introduction across … Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all …

Dual or multiple earnership has been considered an important factor to prevent in-work poverty. The aim of this paper … is to quantify the impact of second earnership on the risk of in-work poverty and the role of the tax-benefit systems in … in preventing in-work poverty. This is done by simulating a counterfactual scenario where second earners become …

2016, to estimate the impact of the reform on women's incomes, income poverty rates and measures of material deprivation … for lower-income women. These reductions in income lead to the absolute income poverty rate of women aged 60-62, who are … now under the state pension age, increasing by 6.4 percentage points. However, the increased risk of poverty does not …