is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …

Bislang beschränkt sich die Messung von Armut und Ungleichheit in der deutschen Armutsberichterstattung im Wesentlichen …

that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary … poverty among working households for the whole of the Britain between 1904 and 1937. We offer a number of pieces of … corroborative evidence that give support to our findings. We decompose the poverty reduction into the effects of two proximate …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of … income support and tax credits not been implemented. These reforms have also contributed to substantially reduce poverty …

We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern … that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and reservation, we take advantage of the … reserved for Scheduled Tribes significantly reduces poverty while increasing the share of seats reserved for Scheduled Castes …

market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job creation and hence increase poverty. On the … poverty. We take advantage of a complex minimum wage system in a poor country that has been exposed to the forces of … globalization to test whether minimum wages are an effective poverty reduction tool in this environment. We find that minimum wage …

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg … the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty … child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe. …