Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual … data. Among single males, about a third of the income-poor ones are "undeserving," because (based on the estimates) they …

differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on … equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam. …This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference …

bunching behavior among the self-employed at the salient first kink point of the Swedish central government income tax schedule …, located in the upper middle part of the income distribution. We find that self-employed immigrants exhibit significantly less …