, 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 …

different regulatory approaches may, in the end, have quite diverse implications on income inequality among the elderly. A … affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …

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 …

countries' poverty profiles and inequality levels can be heavily influenced by how such payments are taken into account. This … international and subnational comparison of inequality in China, Peru, Dominican Republic, Germany, United Kingdom and United States …

-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 …

This paper assesses women's poverty in 26 diverse LIS countries - five Anglophone countries, six Continental European … as post-transfer income, and when we consider absolute as well as relative poverty? (3) How do women's poverty rates …-national portrait of gender and poverty shift when we consider person-level income as well as household-level income? We conclude that …

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 …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … relationship between the concentration of cash transfers net of direct taxes and their effectiveness in terms of reducing poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …

-government poverty rates climb by three to four percentage points once we account for households' medical expenses. We find that …