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 …

This paper analyses the impacts of indirect tax policy reforms on income distribution and poverty in Tanzania by … government tax revenue and a neutral effect on income distribution and poverty. The results of the second reform find a positive … distribution, poverty indicators fell. …