the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thereby help perpetuate it. To … avoid this, the present paper discusses a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality: the ratio of the income …

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

investigated countries provide social assistance benefits above the EU near poverty threshold. Social assistance benefit levels …

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 …

ication of a poverty line or particular poverty measures . The paper introduces three alternative principles of targeting …

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 …