systems from various perspectives. This paper uses available household wealth and income data to calculate the resource rich … state of Western Australia's ISF from different wealth level perspectives. How wealth inequity may affect the stability of … changes in wealth distribution. The ISF results show that from the perspective of society's richest 20%, poorest 20%, mean …

value of one’s own home (home equity) is the largest financial reserve in a household’s wealth portfolio, it is important to …

This chapter argues income and wealth are two paramount gradational measures of social stratification. The chapter … makes this case while reviewing recent social science on income and wealth. First, I begin by explaining how income and … wealth are essential for purchasing well-being. Second, I review the definition and measurement of income and wealth. This …

There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure … poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …

In this study, we examined to what extent family policies differently affect poverty among single-parent households and …, family policies reduced poverty to a greater extent among single-parent households. Paid leave more effectively facilitated … the employment of single parents, thereby reducing their poverty more than among two-parent households. Family allowances …

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

amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by … maternal education, but only when both the educational gradient of single motherhood and the child poverty gap by single …

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 …