This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …

associated derived demands for labor. Individual and community factors may influence the average length of poverty spells. We … poverty rate of the county. We find that moving an individual from one standard deviation above the mean poverty rate to one … standard deviation below the mean poverty rate (from the inner city to the suburbs) lowers the average poverty spell by 20 …

output drop and weak governance, have led to a sharp rise in inequality among households. Sharp inequities have arisen not … the main driving forces of income inequality in Georgia, as it emerges from the analysis of the first representative … survey of incomes and expenditures of Georgian households in 1996-1997. The paper finds that the level of inequality for …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the … (benefit amounts, tax bands, etc.), and all other changes in the underlying population (market income inequality, demographic …-benefit changes on inequality when evaluated against a distributionally-neutral benchmark, i.e., a situation where tax …

Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for … Turkey. The paper finds that Turkey does not face a problem of absolute poverty by the standards of a developing country (in …

successful in alleviating inequality and poverty. Focussing on taxes and cash transfers, this paper investigates the impact of … inequality and poverty. We present BRAHMS, a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Brazil and illustrate its use by … evaluating the impact of policy on economic inequality. It is argued that microsimulation provides a valuable analytical tool for …

change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found …Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality … increased urban poverty. Using a large repeated cross-section household survey data from 1986 to 2000, this study maps out the …