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Families at the margins of the welfare state : a comparative study on the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance

Kuivalainen, Susan (contributor) - 2005 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Subnational analyses using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data archive

Jesuit, David K. (contributor) - 2008

contributions LIS data and researchers have made in the comparative study of subnational poverty and income inequality. Finally, we … conclude with a brief presentation of the most recent poverty rates for German Länder and Italian Regions derived from the LIS …

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Family gap structures in Western nations

Posey, John (contributor) - 2008

The term "family gap" refers to differences in income between households with children and households without children …

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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty and inequality

Hlásny, Vladimír; Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - 2020

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 … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …

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"Left behind?"- financialization and income inequality between the affluent, middle class, and the poor

Hyde, Allen - 2018

There is increasing scholarly evidence that financialization has contributed to rising income inequality, especially by concentrating income among the affluent and rich. There is less empirical research examining who is losing out to the affluent. This paper fills this gap by examining how three...

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Differences across place and time in household expenditure patterns : implications for the estimation of equivalence scales

Daley, Angela; Garner, Thesia Isedora; Phipps, Shelley A.; … - 2020

Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For example, a family of two is assumed to need more income than a single person, but not double due to economies of scale in consumption. However, in comparing economic well-being...

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Structural racism, family structure, and black-white inequality in poverty : the differential impact of the legacy of slavery among single mother & married parent households

Baker, Regina S.; O'Connell, Heather A. - 2022

) relates to Black-White inequality in poverty among single mother households and among married with children households in the … 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 …

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Relative income change and pro-poor growth

Kośny, Marek; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2015

Most methods for the analysis of distributional change rely on the changes in the income of a particular group of people, taking either the situation of this group in the previous period, or the average change in the population, as reference point. By contrast, we propose a measure of...

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What is the contribution of intra-household inequality to overall income inequality? : evidence from global data, 1973-2013

Malghan, Deepak; Swaminathan, Hema - 2016

Intra-household inequality continues to remain a neglected corner despite renewed focus on income and wealth inequality. Using the LIS micro data, we present evidence that this neglect is Equivalent to ignoring up to a third of total inequality. For a wide range of countries and over four...

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An equality-growth tradeoff

Kenworthy, Lane (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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