Centre for Microsimulation & Policy Analysis

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Based at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, CeMPA is a world-leading centre for research on distributional analysis and microsimulation in the social sciences. Find out more at: https://www.microsimulation.ac.uk/

New study shows that only one in three women fits the adult worker model underpinning European welfare policy. Women’s individual poverty risk is significantly higher, even among full time workers, and tax benefit systems do not close this gap. doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Invisible gaps: Women’s individual poverty risks and the gendered failings of the adult worker model

Since the early 2000s, welfare states in Europe have shifted their primary focus from providing social protection against labour market risks to the a…

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