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This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz...
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This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
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This paper illustrates how Lorenz Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. After highlighting some drawbacks of using specific functional forms of the Social...
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children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …
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reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …
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Most welfare states design their tax/benefit system to combat income poverty. Some countries are more effective in … poverty alleviation than others. What can explain these variations in outcomes and effectiveness? And has the redistributive … transfers and income taxes in alleviating poverty. We focus on 49 LIS-countries for the period 1967-2016. We compare relative …
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US poverty is much higher than poverty in Europe when a relative poverty measure is used. Using an absolute poverty … measurement method, the picture looks different: poverty in some European countries is higher. This paper estimates poverty rates …) and the European Union (relative) to all the countries. The differences in poverty levels, both in time and between the 16 …
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The European Union coordinates and encourages Member State actions to combat poverty, and to reform their social … in poverty reduction than others. What can explain these variations in effectiveness? This paper analyzes the … effectiveness of social transfers in alleviating poverty. We focus on EU15 countries, but also include other OECD countries in our …
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Poverty alleviation is an important policy objective in developed welfare states. This paper analyzes the effect of … social transfer policies on poverty. A vast literature claims that high social effort goes along with low poverty levels … find quite a strong negative relationship between the level of public social expenditure and poverty among 28 OECD …
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Poverty alleviation is an important policy objective in developed welfare states. This paper analyzes the effect of … social transfer policies on poverty. A vast literature claims that high social effort goes along with low poverty levels … find quite a strong negative relationship between the level of public social expenditure and poverty among 28 OECD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636457