-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social …

-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social …

resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has … hand, poverty increased in absolute terms. In contrast in the following years of rapid economic growth, the growth in the … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited …

rent in the tax base might affect inequality in each of the countries considered. Housing taxation appears to be a … promising avenue for raising additional revenues, or lightening taxation of labour, with no inequality-increasing side-effects. …

rent in the tax base might affect inequality in each of the countries considered. Housing taxation appears to be a … promising avenue for raising additional revenues, or lightening taxation of labour, with no inequality-increasing side-effects. …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

developing countries and highlights the role of microsimulation techniques to characterize how different African countries can … learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …