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 …

time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only …

conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the … central importance of economic growth for poverty reduction and illustrates the difficulty of identifying specific …

paid work hours are negatively correlated with life satisfaction, our results suggest that inequality of well-being may … have increased even more than inequality of income over recent decades. While some policy attention has been directed at …

fuel poverty explanatory factors in Egypt and Jordan. First, we use the "Low income - High Consumption" indicator to … measure the fuel poverty extent. Second, we implement a multivariate statistical approach to untangle the fuel poor household … profile. Then, to explore the factors driving the risk of falling into fuel poverty situations we use a logistic regression …

, pensioners are compared on their poverty rates and inequality. The redistribution paradox states that poverty will be the highest … inequality in income is higher for men than for women both in Belgium and in the Netherlands. In order to minimize poverty and …) poverty rates are much higher than in the Netherlands (universal minimum pension). Poverty rates are higher for elderly women …

Central European nations has introduced greater income inequality than in long-time capitalist nations at similar stages of … development. In the empirical analysis I use comparable inequality data from the Luxembourg Income Study, hold constant a number … of general causal determinants of inequality, and show that such inequality in Eastern and Central Europe is …