Showing 1 - 10 of 116
, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and poverty rates by almost one-third. However, adjusting for differences in needs for public services across population … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269774
Using data from the German SOEP, this paper analyses whether there have been (a) any significant changes in poverty … rates and poverty intensities before and after the Hartz IV reforms and (b) whether there have been observable changes in … the effect of employment in reducing the threat or intensity of poverty. Using multivariate analyses we can find no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265803
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004. We find that, starting from levels of inequality approximately equal to those in other Western countries at the time, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320074
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903 to 2004. We find that, starting from higher levels of inequality than in other Western countries, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty years of the century. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281326
%. Poverty also affects other forms of economic and social functioning. The measurement of poverty is based on the notion of … poverty line, which is constructed from monetary estimates of minimum needs. Poverty is highly correlated with the lack of … education, and there is an intimate connection between nutrition and poverty. The measurement of inequality is a highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318991
, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and poverty rates by almost one-third. However, adjusting for differences in needs for public services across population … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968391
and childcare on estimates of income inequality and financial poverty in 23 European countries. The valuation of public … scale). Even though the ranking of countries by estimates of overall inequality and poverty proves to be only slightly … affected by the choice between the conventional EU scale and the NA scale, poverty estimates by household types are shown to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968516
two alternatives for mitigating them: an unconditional cash transfer scheme for households living in poverty, and the … of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013205146
, education and childcare expenditure on estimates of income inequality and poverty for 24 European countries. The empirical … results show significant effects of public in-kind transfers on the level of income inequality and poverty for all countries …. Over the period 2006-2018, inequality and poverty estimates display rather different trends across European countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480198
poverty, based on 1990s data for a sample of rural and urban sectors of African economies. Using the basic needs approach, an … analysis-of-covariance model is derived and estimated, with the headcount, gap and squared gap poverty ratios serving as the … the responsiveness of poverty to income growth is a decreasing function of inequality, albeit at varying rates for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280208