. There is much theoretical evidence that consumption patterns of men and women should differ, but the empirical evidence is … differentials between men and women over nearly three decades in Ireland. Using harmonised survey data, we show how patterns of …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

distribution and summarise the findings by wage quantile. The explained gender wage gap is negative, indicating that women have …This paper estimates the raw and adjusted gender pay gap in Ireland between 2011 and 2018, a period of austerity … show that the raw gender wage gap across the wage distribution has not changed much over this period: it is larger for …

the gender income gap by redistributing between men and women. The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented levels …The gender income gap is large and well documented for many countries. Recent research shows that it is mainly driven … by differences in working patterns between men and women, but also by wage differences. The tax-benefit system cushions …

of the gender wage and gender work gap combined is an income gap between men and women. A small literature has begun to … examine how the tax-benefit system contributes to closing gender income gaps by redistributing between men and women. In this … work gap to the overall gap in income between men and women. We then decompose the difference between the gender gap in …

Women are disproportionately in low paid work compared to men so, in the absence of rationing effects on their … employment, they should benefit the most from minimum wage policies. This study examines the change in the gender wage gap around … decomposition of the change in the gender differences in wage distributions around the date of introduction of minimum wages. We …

distribution of inflation rates, employing quantile regressions and a decomposition approach, this research uncovers gender …

This paper evaluates the gender-specific distributional impact of the recent cost-of-living crisis in six European …. Despite a growing literature on the distributional impact of inflation, there is limited evidence on gender differentials. We … gender dimension to assess gender differences in inflation regressivity or progressivity, isolate the average inflation rate …

In-work transfers are often seen as a good trade-off between redistribution and efficiency, as they alleviate poverty … poverty effects of alternative policies are analyzed thanks to counterfactual simulations built using a micro-simulation model …