In the last three decades, revolutionary Iran has experienced large shocks to its political and economic system with likely effects on poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. While poverty has declined, inequality has remained relatively high and stable over nearly four decades. In this...

This paper uses demographic data drawn from Wrigley et al.'s (1997) family reconstitutions of 26 English parishes to adjust Allen's (2001) real wages to the changing demography of early modern England. Using parity progression ratios (a fertility measure) and age specific mortality for children...

The aim of this paper is the definition and measurement of the concept of vulnerability between families in a relatively high income region of Italy. Poverty tends to be a multi-dimensional concept and the use of monetary income as a single measure of welfare can be misleading. The concept of...

Una de las características de los datos de renta procedentes de las Encuestas de Presupuestos Familiares es su escasa fiabilidad, ya que los hogares entrevistados ocultan parte de ella. Recientemente, Pena, Callealta, Casas, Merediz y Núñez (1996) han propuesto una metodología para corregir...

We consider the issue of income distribution modeling in the context of poverty analysis impact based on computable general equilibrium micro-simulation models. The empirical distribution function (EDF) is by far the most commonly used estimator in practice. It is, however, not the only...

This paper simulates the distributional impact of the Russian personal income tax (PIT) following the flat tax reform of 2001 using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. I decompose the change in the distribution of net income into a direct (tax) effect and an indirect effect....

Se prueba en este trabajo que el orden inducido por las curvas de Lorenz generalizadas de orden j sólo debe ser considerado un orden en desigualdad cuando j=1, caso en el que coincide con el orden clásico de Lorenz. Se propone como alternativa un nuevo orden, definido igualmente a partir de...