A striking feature of U.S. data on income and consumption is that inequality increases with age. Using both panel data …. The joint behavior of earnings and consumption inequality, interpreted using our model, adds to the body of evidence …

from each other. The imputed income from publicly provided education reduces inequality by between 3 and 4 Gini points and …

2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …, Social Security contributed to surprisingly large increases in inequality due to the rise in pensions to the well …

trade-offs of benefit designs, estimating costs and impacts on poverty and inequality and assessing operational and … inequality than universal transfers. The hybrid model presents results close to those estimated for the targeted model and has …

. 287/2016) on poverty and inequality has been largely impressionistic to date. The present study tries to bridge this gap … the comparison of poverty and inequality indicators observed in 2015 with estimates for the full implementation of two …-the-minimum-wage poverty line) from the current 9.4 per cent to 11.1 per cent. Inequality would increase marginally. The Legislative version …

poverty and inequality. To that end, we have used data from the 2001-2015 standard National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa … the programme was responsible for the 10 per cent of the reduction in inequality between 2001 and 2015. From 2001 to 2006 … observed reduction in inequality. Findings suggest that the targeting of the Programme is already very good and that the main …