redistribution in response to rising unemployment was weaker in 2008‐13 than in the first half of the 1990s. As unemployment and … poverty risk have become increasingly become concentrated among workers with low education, middle‐income opinion has become … more permissive of cuts in unemployment insurance generosity and income assistance to the poor. At constant generosity, the …

affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …

below-average poverty risk while also affecting relative income poverty thresholds. Examining eleven countries for which … UK. A counterfactual exercise assessed the impact of these changes in composition on relative income poverty rates by … relative poverty rate in 2019 would have been a good deal higher in Germany, Greece, and Italy, and especially in Israel and …

. Institutions that decrease inequality are, however, associated with higher unemployment, and our analysis allows us to quantify the …

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. …

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 …

of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations … address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …