Transition to adulthood has undoubtedly changed in the last few decades. For youth today, an important marker of … conditions. Economic conditions of youth are greatly subject to fluctuations in the economy, and the subsequent governmental …

. This paper examines the determinants and the sources of education inequality among the youth in the MENA region using … inequality. The paper makes use of the Recentered Influence Functions (RIF) unconditional regression techniques to examine youth …. The findings show that higher household income reduces education inequality among youth in Iraq and higher education …

poverty. Results from this paper demonstrate one important avenue through which inequality could be reproduced in young …

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 …