ceteris paribus impact of the reforms on inequality and poverty as well as estimate how the burden of austerity has been …

inequality and at-risk-of-poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for the differences between these and their …This paper presents baseline results from the latest public version (I4.0+) of EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …

Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which … comparison with OECD countries, but it is not strongly enforced. Poverty among pensioners is set to fall in the future with the …

behavioural effects did not fully offset the negative static effects on the risk-of-poverty rate and inequality. From a policy … Swedish work-line policy increased the risk of poverty by 1.0 percentage point and the Gini coefficient by 0.4. In Sweden, the … perspective, the results indicate that the Nordic model is resilient. In Sweden, a significant increase in the risk of poverty …

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 …

substantially different levels of vulnerability to poverty among population groups facing different risks. In the context of the …

of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations … address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …

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 …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … Brazilian National Household Survey covering the period 1995-2004. -- inequality ; poverty ; growth ; pro-poor growth ; labour … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …