We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The current benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every …

Family 500 +) on inequality and poverty. The analysis is based on micro-level household data from the Luxembourg Income Study … (LIS) and Statistics Poland. We examine the changes in various indicators of inequality and poverty (Gini index, subjective … and relative poverty rates) and their decomposition. We find evidence that the program substantially reduces inequality …

-government income by treating households’ health care costs similarly across countries. The results show the degree of bias in common …As health care costs rise, so too does the importance of assessing their incidence, and factoring these costs into … measures of post-government income distribution. This paper contributes to this assessment by calculating the effect of …

structure intersect in the context of poverty. Method: We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study, the American Community … poverty among individuals within the same family structure. Background: Family structure is a dominant explanation for racial … inequality in poverty. This overemphasis on an “individual-level” variable results in relatively less attention to the role of …

economic exclusion of immigrants, conceptualized not as labor market outcomes but as relative poverty. This study examines the … relationship between welfare generosity and immigrant poverty across rich western democracies and compares this relationship with … that of native poverty. One publicly held belief is that immigrants disproportionately benefit from welfare generosity …

the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … measures. It finds that the main source of negative disposable incomes is negative self-employment income, and that high tax …

Rich democracies have experienced a large increase in income inequality starting around 1980, coinciding with a rise in … international trade and information technology. The leading theories used to explain changes in the income distribution - skilled … those forces. First, I clarify the trends in income within the United States. The key rise occurred from 1980 to 2000 in …