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Why are child poverty rates so persistently high in Spain?

Gradín, Carlos; Cantó, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009

Poverty rates among households with children in Spain have been shown to be persistently higher than those among … order to study the dynamics of poverty transitions in Spain we estimate a dynamic random effects probit model that controls … recurrence in poverty among households with children in Spain, compared with other countries. …

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What helps households with children in leaving poverty? Evidence from Spain

Río, Coral del; Gradín, Carlos; Cantó, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

promoting exits from deprivation for childbearing households in Spain, a Southern European Country with high and persistent …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230616

The contribution of income mobility to economic insecurity in the US and Spain during the Great Recession

Canto, Olga; Ruiz, David O. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014

approximated by the prevalence of downward income mobility. We identify the main socioeconomic characteristics of those most likely …

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Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement and Estimation, with Evidence from China

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araaryand, Abdelkrim; Giles, John - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate...

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Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor: a New Approach

Lustig, Nora; Higgins, Sean - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012

directional mobility literature provides a useful framework to identify which individuals are adversely/favorably impacted by a … particular policy. This paper introduces a “fiscal mobility matrix” to identify winners and losers. We show that taxes and …

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Ray-invariant intermediate inequality measures: A Lorenz dominance criterion

Azpitarte, Francisco; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

This paper introduces a new Lorenz dominance criterion that allows ranking income distributions according to ray-invariant intermediate inequality measures. In doing so, it defines a-Lorenz curves by adapting the generalized Lorenz curves to this case. In addition, it provides an empirical...

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The pro-poorness, growth and inequality nexus: Some findings from a simulation study

Groll, Thomas; Lambert, Peter J. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

A widely accepted criterion for pro-poorness of an income growth pattern is that it should reduce a (chosen) measure of poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equiproportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen as either necessary or sufficient for pro-poorness. As shown in...

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Lower and upper bounds of unfair inequality: Theory and evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

countries. We discuss the cross-country differences and similarities in IOp in the light of differences in social mobility and …

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On the identification of the “middle class”

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Brandolini, Andrea - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

The paper examines the identification of the “middle class” using data from LIS and LWS. It first considers definitions based purely on income, examining the rationale for different approaches and illustrating the implications for changes over time. It argues that the concept of “class”...

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An empirical assessment of households sorting into private schooling under public education provision

Andreoli, Francesco; Casalone, Giorgia; Sonedda, Daniela - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2015

We estimate structural quantile treatment effects to analyze the relationship between household income and sorting into private or public education, using Italian data. Public education provision is redistributive when rich families, who contribute to its financing, find it optimal to sort out...

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