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 …

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

inequality in poverty. This overemphasis on an “individual-level” variable results in relatively less attention to the role of …) relates to Black-White inequality in poverty among single mother households and among married with children households in the … U.S. South. Results: There is an impact of the legacy of slavery on Black-White inequality in poverty even within family …

The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results … inequality analyses with a larger conceptualization of "morphology of inequality," not reduced to a Gini (or the like) measure. …

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 …

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 …

conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the … central importance of economic growth for poverty reduction and illustrates the difficulty of identifying specific …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …