This paper assesses women's poverty in 26 diverse LIS countries - five Anglophone countries, six Continental European … as post-transfer income, and when we consider absolute as well as relative poverty? (3) How do women's poverty rates …-national portrait of gender and poverty shift when we consider person-level income as well as household-level income? We conclude that …

factor reallocation and remittances, and focusing on two (primarily) destination countries (Spain and Italy) and two … Italy, and on quantile regression to estimate the impact of receiving remittances on per capita expenditure in Iraq and … Jordan. The results suggest that migration increases inequality in both origin and receiving countries. …

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 …

changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thereby help perpetuate it. To … avoid this, the present paper discusses a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality: the ratio of the income …