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The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in … the population. It derives the implications of a between-type regressive transfer principle for poverty measures, for the … choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in …
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I analyze the role of the distribution of skills in shaping optimal nonlinear income tax schedules. I use theoretical skill distributions as well as empirical skill distributions for 14 OECD countries. I find that a more dispersed log-normal skill distribution implies a more progressive optimal...
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the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …
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Family 500 +) on inequality and poverty. The analysis is based on micro-level household data from the Luxembourg Income Study … (LIS) and Statistics Poland. We examine the changes in various indicators of inequality and poverty (Gini index, subjective … and relative poverty rates) and their decomposition. We find evidence that the program substantially reduces inequality …
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of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations … address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …
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This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the...
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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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The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The outcome of this process entails relevant information about...
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