The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in … different components of household income and other resources on child deep-poverty rates to examine the role of the market and … poverty reduction. Overall, middle-income nations have witnessed continuous reductions in their extreme child poverty rates …

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups … income ; inequality ; poverty …

Poverty is generally defined as income or expenditure insufficiency, but the economic condition of a household also … depends on its real and financial asset holdings. This paper investigates measures of poverty that rely on indicators of … household net worth. We review and assess two main approaches followed in the literature: income-net worth measures and asset-poverty …

reducing poverty in old age. The transition from work to retirement is no longer economically perilous for the vast majority of … older American workers. For most married couples, the risk of falling into poverty even several years after retirement is … greatest risk of falling into poverty in old age now comes after the death of a spouse, as the survivor faces life after …

This paper explores trends in inequality and poverty using both market and after-tax and transfer income in the period … during and after the Great Recession (through 2011). Using market income (or wages), inequality and poverty rose sharply … poverty increase was muted. Tax and transfer policies lowered inequality and poverty, but those policies were not equal across …