poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …

-wage workers. Most previous analyses of the distributional effects of minimum wages have been confined to simulation exercises … employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …

relatively large number of Indonesians. Because of low productivity, poverty has become the main social issue for farmers …