This paper begins with an examination of various ways of measuring unemployment and, borrowing ideas from the poverty … measurement literature, proposes four new general unemployment indices. The first of these is parallel to the Sen poverty index …; the second, to the Sen index's generalization by Shorrocks; the third, to the FGT poverty index; and the fourth, to the …

enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate …

What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the … winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are … the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of …

high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in … 1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

Shakespeare, this paper examines the relations between poverty levels, economic growth and changes in inequality in Tanzania …Studying the relation between economic growth and income poverty reduction without taking changes in the distribution … during the 1990s. It offers four conclusions. First, the efficiency with which growth reduces poverty increases with a …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …

This paper explores the nexus between the phenomenon of increasing income inequality and redistributive effects of the … difference between inequality of market incomes and disposable incomes. Moreover, this paper will try to estimate the … that the public sector still reduces market income inequality significantly but to a lower extent than in the previous …