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Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further … highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty … review two common uses of poverty imputation methods that aim at tracking poverty over time and estimating poverty dynamics …
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
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This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of … poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion …, and the influence of changing levels of substitutability between achievements on the poverty dimensions is examined. It …
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, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40–60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …
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multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …
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We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle mechanical effects due to changes in pre-tax incomes from direct effects of policy reforms. While tax reforms implemented under Democrat administrations, in...
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We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle the direct policy effect from the effect of changing market incomes. Over the whole period 1979-2007 the cumulative tax policy effect aggravated income inequality...
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Bislang beschränkt sich die Messung von Armut und Ungleichheit in der deutschen Armutsberichterstattung im Wesentlichen … weniger stark ausgeprägt als bislang allgemein angenommen. -- Armut ; Ungleichheit ; Lebenshaltungskosten ; öffentliche … Armutslückenverhältnis wird auf Ebene der Analyseregionen durch das aktuelle Vorgehen in der Regel überschätzt. Die Ungleichheit in der …
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demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using … comprehensive analysis of richness. -- Richness ; affluence ; poverty ; tax reform ; flat tax …
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rising poverty. As the crisis gained momentum, the action of automatic stabilisation mechanisms built into the national tax …
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