Schmidt -- Comment: Robert Topel -- Effects of Welfare Reform on Family Income -- and Poverty -- Ron Haskins -- Comment …Machine generated contents note: 1 Welfare Reform: An Agenda for Reauthorization -- Ron Haskins and Rebecca M. Blank …: Wendell Primus -- 5 Family Formation / 13 -- Charles Murray -- Comment: Rebecca A. Maynard -- 6 The Politics of Welfare Reform …

results are interpreted in terms of poverty and inequality statistics while closely looking into the assumptions of the … microsimulation models. In the first scenario a modest level of guaranteed minimum income is feasible, decreasing both poverty and … unrealistically high tax rates, especially for Italy. The impact on poverty and inequality of the HNIT scheme is markedly higher for …

This paper assesses Italy’s 2019 tax and benefit reforms, analyses hypothetical reforms and proposes a reform package … 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 …

Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create …