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 …

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show … increased likelihood of poverty. Less risk of poverty can be found among those that have supervision over the workplace, have …

We provide a common set of life-cycle earnings statistics using administrative data from the United States, Canada …, Denmark and Sweden. Three qualitative patterns are common across countries: (1) the earnings distribution above the median … fans out with age, (2) the extreme right tail of the earnings distribution becomes thicker with age, and (3) the growth …

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 …

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 …

This paper evaluates the impact of a large macroeconomic shock on poverty. In particular, we use longitudinal data from … countries in order to quantify changes in poverty transition patterns caused by the 2007 global financial crisis. Because the … substantial macroeconomic shock on poverty. Employing semiparametric mixed discrete time survival analysis, we find that …

The degree of income inequality in Sweden has varied substantially since the 1970s. This study analyzes whether this … measures of income inequality to evaluate which part of the distribution that matters most in determining crime rates. Our …