poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper we address this shortcoming by developing a new …

Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable. Based on these pseudo samples, poverty and inequality indicators are estimated. The standard errors of the …

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 … reduces overall inequality by almost 7 Gini points. This reduction is mainly driven by in-kind benefits while the impact of …

increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …: material standard of living, parental education, and parental childcare time. We compute multidimensional inequality and … poverty indices using SOEP data from 1991-2012. We distinguish between parental and publicly provided childcare, which is an …

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 …

Using an empirical age-period-cohort model we analyze the effects of different Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) public pension … systems on financial imbalance, on inequality in permanent income, and on the rate of return of social security assets of … relevant for developing countries such as the existence of labor informality (seen as non-contribution to the pension system …