Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of … the GFC. This increase is due to a rise in market income inequality that was compounded by a reduction in fiscal … redistributive efficiency. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to deepen income inequality, increasing the room for redistributive policies …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … among families with children and pensioners. -- Tax-benefit policy ; inequality ; poverty ; Shapley decomposition … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and …

How can poverty reduction be improved and at what cost? Available evidence suggests that social investment strategies … and employment policies are important but not sufficient. In order to reduce the number of people below the relative at-risk-of-poverty … paper we show that this is not a cheap option. We calculate the hypothetical cost of closing the poverty gap while …

of alternative tax reform scenarios. The analysis is based on the tax and benefit micro-simulation model for Serbia … increase the basic allowance would somewhat reduce inequality and improve vertical inequity in taxation. On the other hand, in … effects (in either cases) on poverty reduction will be achieved. …

This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of … the Global South. Using national survey data and tax-benefit microsimulation models from the SOUTHMOD project, we provide …

Minimum Income (MI) schemes are essential to alleviate poverty and guarantee a last-resort safety net to households … with insufficient resources. Assessing the effectiveness of MI schemes in poverty reduction is challenging. Studies based … receipts. Studies based on microsimulation models tend to overestimate these benefits mainly due to lack of data on take-up and …

an expanded set of social benefits would lead to reduced poverty and inequality in comparison to the current practice of …Using SAMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for South Africa, this paper examines the joint distributional impact … of the increase in the value-added tax (VAT) rate and increases in benefit amounts in 2018. Although poverty and …

, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in …-related tax reliefs). To measure these three dimensions, we use EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. We … support also reduces poverty intensity and incidence, although not to a large extent. …

policies in Estonia, Italy and the United Kingdom. Disentangling the contribution to inequality and poverty of each housing … impact on inequality in Estonia and on both inequality and relative poverty in Italy. In all three countries, housing … the housing advantage of homeowners and social tenants. We use the Euromod microsimulation model to simulate housing …