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  1. Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce poverty

    Tine Hufkens, Francesco Figari, Dieter Vandelannoote, et al.

    1. Child Development
    2. Labour Market
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Caregiving

  2. Shifting taxes away from labour enhances equity and fiscal efficiency

    Flavia Coda Moscarola, Ugo Colombino, Francesco Figari, et al.

    1. Welfare Benefits
    2. Microsimulation
    3. Taxation

  3. Tax-benefit microsimulation and income redistribution in Ecuador

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Marcelo Varela

    1. Insurance
    2. Households
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Household Economics
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  4. Falling through the social safety net? Analysing non-take-up of minimum income benefit and monetary social assistance in Austria

    Michael Fuchs, Katarina Hollan, Katrin Gasior, et al.

    1. Public Policy
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation

  5. Decent incomes for all: improving policies in Europe

    1. Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Social Policy

  6. Policy and poverty in seven European Union countries in the Lisbon decade: the contribution of tax-benefit policy changes

    John Hills, Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, et al.

    1. Poverty
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation

  7. The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction: the cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives

    Diego Collado, Bea Cantillon, Karel Van den Bosch, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Social Policy

  8. The use of hypothetical household data for policy learning: comparative tax‒benefit indicators using EUROMOD HHoT

    Katrin Gasior and Pasquale Recchia

    1. Households
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Social Policy

  9. Productivity effects of dengue in Brazil

    Sonia Bhalotra, Gabriel Facchini, Aline Menezes, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Health

  10. Universal credit and its impact on household incomes: the long and the short of it

    Mike Brewer, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters, et al.

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Taxation
    6. Life Course Analysis

  11. Financial disincentives to formal work: evidence from Ecuador and Colombia

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and David Rodriguez

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  12. Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce child poverty: an adequate strategy?

    Tine Hufkens, Francesco Figari, Dieter Vandelannoote, et al.

    1. Child Development
    2. Labour Market
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Caregiving

  13. Indexing out of poverty? Fiscal drag and benefit erosion in cross-national perspective

    Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation

  14. Indexing out of poverty? Fiscal drag and benefit erosion in cross-national perspective

    Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation

  15. The probability of poverty for mothers after childbirth and divorce in Europe: the role of social stratification and tax-benefit policies

    Daria Popova and Jekaterina Navicke

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Taxation
    8. Social Stratification

  16. Improving poverty reduction in Europe: what works best where?

    Chrysa Leventi, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Taxation

  17. Learning from the ʻbestʼ: the impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa

    Olivier Bargain, Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, David Rodriguez, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation
    6. Economic Policy

  18. Income redistribution in Latin America: a microsimulation approach

    Cristina Arancibia, Mariana Dondo, Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, et al.

    1. Regional Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  19. Written evidence from Understanding Society the UK Household Longitudinal Study (WSN0051) [Work and Pensions Select Committee. Welfare safety net inquiry]

    1. Social Exclusion
    2. Households
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Social Policy

  20. Distributional impact of taxes and social transfers in Russia over the downturn

    Daria Popova, Mikhail Matytsin, and Emily Sinnot

    1. Economics
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Taxation
    5. Economic Policy

  21. Top income adjustments and tax reforms in Ecuador

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Nicolás Oliva

    1. Labour Market
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation
    6. Surveys

  22. Unemployment insurance and income protection in Ecuador

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo

    1. Insurance
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Unemployment
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation

  23. The case for NIT+FT in Europe. An empirical optimal taxation exercise

    Nizamul Islam and Ugo Colombino

    1. Labour Market
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

  24. Fuel subsidies and income redistribution in Ecuador

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, Po Chun Lee, Lourdes Montesdeoca, et al.

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation

  25. Income protection of atypical workers in the event of unemployment in Europe

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Alberto Tumino

    1. Insurance
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  26. Income protection of atypical workers in the event of unemployment in Europe

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Alberto Tumino

    1. Insurance
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  27. Piecemeal modelling of the effects of joint direct and indirect tax reforms

    Bart Capéau, André Decoster, Sebastiaan Maes, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

  28. Who benefits from the ‘hidden welfare state’? The distributional effects of personal income tax expenditure in six countries

    Silvia Avram

    1. Households
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

  29. Drivers of poverty entry and persistence among older people in the UK

    Ricky Kanabar

    1. Older People
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics

  30. Can’t work or won’t work: quasi-experimental evidence on work search requirements for single parents

    Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, and Andrea Salvatori

    1. Disability
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Welfare Benefits

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