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 …

argue that conventional wisdom may be wrong. First, the extent and effectiveness of income redistribution and poverty …

Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or slightly depending on the government’s redistributive … independent evaluations. CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. … and human capital accumulation, as well as with reducing inequality. The Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ) evaluates …

Inequality and poverty fell sharply in many Latin American countries during a decade in which voters in ten countries … econometric evidence that social democratic regimes in Brazil and Chile were more successful at reducing inequality and poverty … are a return to “normal” levels (as estimated by fixed effects). Conversely, inequality and poverty in Brazil and Chile …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …. The impact of transfers on inequality and poverty reduction could be higher if spending on direct cash transfers that are … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …

Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis – in 2009 – inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic … developments during the crisis but at least an in-crease of persons, who stayed within the poverty region, occurred between 2008 …

disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly between 2006 and 2009 primarily due to the launching of a noncontributory … pension program – the pension moratorium – in 2004. Noncontributory pensions as a share of GDP rose by 2.2 percentage points … minimum pensions to the beneficiaries of the pension moratorium. The redistributive impact of the expansion of public spending …

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. …

inequality and poverty overall or along ethnic and rural-urban lines. Persistently low tax revenues are the main limiting factor …Guatemala is one of the most unequal countries in Latin America and has the highest incidence of poverty. The … transfers: poverty after taxes and cash transfers is higher than market income poverty. …