analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … inequality statistics, but provide evidence that our qualitative conclusions are likely to apply to other surveys. We link … also greatly understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often …

family cash transfers. We evaluate these reforms using a structural labor supply model based on the microsimulation EUROMOD … model and EU-SILC data. We find that both reforms have an inequality-decreasing impact. However, when looking at labor …

family cash transfers. We evaluate these reforms using a structural labor supply model based on the microsimulation EUROMOD … model and EUSILC data. We find that both reforms have an inequality-decreasing impact. However, when looking at labor supply …

household incomes and in the prevention of child poverty across Europe. In one group of countries family benefits appear to have … a significant effect on the protection of children from financial poverty. The UK and the Netherlands are both members … of this group, and we use the microsimulation model EUROMOD to examine the extent to which differences in child benefits …

The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State … family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain … and Portugal. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, the paper first assesses the distributional impact of …