This article is a comparative analysis of the sources of income inequality in four countries, namely Japan, South Korea …, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. It relies upon decompositions of inequality measures by population groups and income sources … (except for Japan because of data limitations). According to national family income and expenditure surveys, income inequality …

evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …

poverty indices to data contamination using the concept of the influence function. We show that poverty and inequality indices …Drawing on recent work concerning the statistical robustness of inequality statistics we examine the sensitivity of … have fundamentally different robustness properties, and demonstrate that an imporrtant commonly used subclass of poverty …

social policies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined. The limitations of a social policy that … livelihood approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty and inequality are considered. …Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable and noted feature of Chinese society. The paper …

countries. The same result is also obtained for the e¤ects of ICT and mass media on economic inequality,. However, ICT reveals … itself inequal- ity increasing for the developing country sample but inequality decreasing for the entire sample. Finally …, lower poverty is robustly associated with higher media (newspaper circulation) penetration. …

assess the impact of recent reforms on the ability of systems to alleviate poverty and maintain living standards, using … most countries poverty alleviation remains strong. However, moves to link benefits to contributions have made some systems … individuals above the 60% relative poverty threshold throughout retirement. Our simulations suggest that the gradual negative …

This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects … predict the potential implications of particular growth policies to inequality, poverty and, consequently, to social … of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to …