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 …

. Disentangling the contribution to inequality and poverty of each housing-related policy, we find that the current design of property … inequality and relative poverty in Italy. Only in the UK are housing policies more important than imputed rent in reducing … inequality and poverty. In all three countries, housing-related policies favor the elderly. Although the United Kingdom has the …

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 …

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 …

, 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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …