made available via the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) (www.lisproject.org). We first offer a brief overview of the LIS and … and researchers have made in the comparative study of subnational poverty and income inequality. Finally, we conclude with …

The use of income distribution indicators in the economics literature has increased considerably in recent years. This …

This paper examines whether retirement-income systems allow older individuals to enjoy socially acceptable income … employ the Luxembourg Income Study to compare Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States. This study … retirement-income systems of Canada, France, Germany, and the United States, however, tend to be older than age 75. Some experts …

This paper uses micro-census income data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to measure the current and future … between income obtained from households' own saving and labor earnings, on the one hand, and the part financed with unfunded … transfers, on the other. The burden of unfunded transfers is defined as the tax on factor income that is needed to pay for such …

the skewness of income distributions: In the globalization model, increasing inequality is accompanied first by a fall and … Luxembourg Income Study, skewness estimations of logged monetary income distributions form an unbalanced panel with 69 …

This chapter addresses the important issue of the quality of time series data on income distribution. We hope to … sources), and users. We consider measurement error in both theory and practice. Along the way we include a number of practical … suggestions for improving the comparability of time series data and trend analyses for income distribution. …

approach. The poor were those whose income remained below 60% of the national equivalent disposable income. Second, we … areas in respective countries. Data were compiled from the Luxembourg Income Study. If we apply the conventional nation …-based ways of operationalizing poverty (poverty line 60% of median income) the poverty rate varies from 7,1% in Sweden to 20 …

Total household income inequality can be very different from inequality measured at the income per-capita level but … correlation between household size, household composition and household income. Inequality generally increases with children …

parameter that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to 'exclusion' or 'relative-deprivation' aversion. We …

of economic growth by income levels are analyzed using real income changes at three different points of the distribution … scale. A cross-national comparison of the absolute income levels of the low, median and high-income households in every … of welfare based on the notion of combining average income and inequality in some kind of two-dimensional welfare index. …