-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality … growth in the short term, while the impact of income inequality on growth is statistically insignificant. Our results are …

inequality generated in the market? In order to answer these questions, we need to be equipped with adequate measures of …

redistribution in a comparative setting. We use micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine household market inequality … increase in primary household inequality in all 20 countries over the last 25 years (except Ireland). In most countries, the … income inequality, although they appear to have become less effective in doing so since the mid-1990s. We find that the …

variables are LIS data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25 to 59 and the … inequality has increased in the United States because the country failed to invest sufficiently in education. The main … determinants of market income inequality are (in order of size of the effect) family structure (single mother households), union …

growth: liberal welfare states opted for growth and accepted rising inequality, while conservative welfare states tried to … hold back inequality, thereby accepting lower growth, and only the social democratic welfare states were partly able to … overcome that trade-off. The rise in inequality is widely interpreted with regard to globalization and technological change …

premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

social inequality. In this study, I used data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to describe trends in educational … amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by …