For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have … enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate …

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE … (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household’s disposable annual income is used …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show …

We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income differentials. We also …

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … is therefore to disentangle the two effects by, first, estimating region-specific inequality in permanent and transitory … indicate that it is important to separate the two effects; while an increase in the inequality in permanent income yields a …

Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … as a way of combating poverty. This paper investigates whether or not SHG participation results in reducing poverty and …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …