costs and benefits of redistribution are generally of the same order of magnitude, resulting in reasonable values for the …

The rise in inequality and poverty is one of the most important economic and social issues in recent times. But in … dissolution and labour market participation. It allows standard economic theory to address the issues of household, as distinct … from individual, income and poverty dynamics. In this paper, we illustrate this framework with an application to poverty …

This Paper analyses the persistence of poverty in Sweden using a hazard rate model based on multiple spells. The model … income obtained from individual tax files. Poverty is defined using information on annual minimum needs standards determined … by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare. The data indicates that poverty rates are highest for immigrants …

and benefits of redistribution through taxes, land reform or public schooling: such policies simultaneously depress …

connected to a lower decrease in inequality. This finding is robust to the measurement and definition of income inequality, as …

new dataset of consistent inequality series, allowing us to explore problems of measurement error. In addition, the new … estimate the entire income distribution, computing alternative inequality indexes and poverty estimates. Finally, we have used … our broadly comparable dataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty. …

rural poverty, and eventually in urban poverty. …