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 …

growth in the short term, while the impact of income inequality on growth is statistically insignificant. Our results are …This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel of more …-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality …

This paper uses data from the Luxembourg Income Study to analyse cross-national and cross-temporal poverty risks in … welfare state efforts, at the beginning of the 21st century the question of poverty is still highly relevant. It remains today … poverty risks have tended to increase from the early 1980s to the present day. We also show that the cross-national variation …

, in a globalizing world. This paper examines the problems of population aging, low wages, growing inequality, and …'s program to reduce child poverty. While best practices may be identified, each nation must create its own set of mutually … poverty. …

types of families with children. Measures of both poverty and inequality are presented and the comparative results are noted …While all nations value low poverty, high levels of economic self-reliance, and equality of opportunity for younger … self-reliance (earned incomes), family support, and government support to avoid poverty. This paper is designed to examine …

both our approach and our findings. We begin with an overview of growth and inequality in the three countries. The second …This paper provides an overview of poverty in North America. In it we look at the three countries of North America …, Mexico, the US, and to a lesser extent Canada and attempt to both describe poverty as it exists in the three countries and …

association between inequality and slower growth across large samples of mainly less developed nations. Researchers also … identified various causal paths through which inequality might reduce growth. Recently, several studies focusing on rich … countries have discovered an apparent growth-enhancing effect of inequality, consistent with the older view. My examination of …

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 …