Southern European Countries using EUROMOD, the EU-wide tax-benefit microsimulation model. In-Work Benefits (IWBs) are means … the labour market participation of women in couples is of fundamental concern. -- work benefits ; fiscal microsimulation … ; poverty ; female labour market participation …

Using the tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD and Family Resources Survey, we investigate what would have … happened to child poverty in the UK in the periods 2010/11-2015/16 and 2015/16-2020/21 under a range of different indexation … scenarios of children's benefits. We find that between 2010/11 and 2015/16 both the relative and absolute child poverty rates …

paving the way for economic recovery, fiscal consolidation and reducing looming inequality problems. The present work sets …

Mainland. Using a static tax-benefit microsimulation model- TAZMOD-which is underpinned by data derived from the Household … revenue losses and impact on poverty are estimated. The rules for direct taxes are then modified in order to identify ways in …

poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case …, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in part because of the Millennium Development Goals and the growing …

middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances … margins of the poverty line were found to be small and robustness and sensitivity tests were done to accompany simulation …. Simulations found that individual level allowances reduce poverty more than household level allowances. Such individual level …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …

The new Routledge History of Poverty, c. 1450-1800 provides neither a "history" nor a coherent concept of "poverty" and …, based on the idea that the interplay of "labour" and "poverty" (epitomized in the notion of the "labouring poor") forms the … crucial key to the understanding of the decisive long-term theme in the history of poverty and poor relief in Europe from 1350 …