This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …

Empirical findings on the relationship between income inequality and redistribution from a cross-country perspective …-and-compare” approach, rendering fiscal regimes into a common base by adjusting for differences in pre-fisc income inequality, and then …

empirically by using Statistics Norway’s dynamic microsimulation model MOSART. …

-post inequality of opportunity if individuals who exert the same effort have different permanent incomes. In comparison, the ex …

substantial decrease in inequality among households with preschoolers, since the child care subsidies very much favour well …

by this route ease the financial burden of the government, but also reduced poverty. …

A link between lack of employment and poverty is often made implicitly, but can be difficult to enumerate in a … household’s probability of exiting poverty? Register data from the entire resident population of Norway serves as the basis for … this analysis, which indicates that full-time does greatly increase the probability of exiting poverty. Part …

This paper is concerned with concepts – poverty, inequality, affluence, and polarization – that are typically treated … is on “well-off” countries where poverty is a minority, rather than a majority, phenomenon. At the other end of the scale … measurement of “affluence” can proceed along similar lines to the measurement of poverty. The threshold may be set, relatively, as …

and childcare on estimates of income inequality and financial poverty in 23 European countries. The valuation of public … scale). Even though the ranking of countries by estimates of overall inequality and poverty proves to be only slightly … affected by the choice between the conventional EU scale and the NA scale, poverty estimates by household types are shown to be …