The functioning of the labor market often has been stressed as a clear determinant in explaining poverty trends in … developed countries. In this paper, we analyze the role of gender wage discrimination on household poverty rates in several EU … poverty, we propose the construction of a counterfactual distribution of wages where discrimination against women has been …

poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equiproportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen as either … detail the properties of inequality reduction and pro-poorness, using the Watts poverty index and Gini inequality index, when …

measurement of poverty. There are three reasons why we feel that a re-examination is necessary: (i) the extent of global income … have to reconcile measures of world inequality and world poverty; and (iii) we need to explore more fully the different … ways in which measures may be relative or absolute. This leads us to propose a new measure, which (a) combines poverty and …

-income households. The search for significant relationships between multidimensional deprivation and income poverty has been a central …

, with emphasis on tax incidence, redistribution and poverty analysis. It then discusses social welfare analysis permitted by …

This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into …

The two largest minorities in the United States, African Americans and people of Hispanic origin, show official poverty … rates that are at least twice as high as those among non-Hispanic Whites. These similarly high poverty rates among … poverty rates among racial and ethnic groups in the United States and its recent evolution. Our results show, first, that …

of growth. In particular, that effect tends to reduce poverty while the structural effect tends to increase it. This … conclusion is robust with respect to the choice of poverty measures and RIF regression models. …