strong decline in child poverty and poverty amongst single parent households. In the latter group, a third of the headcount … poverty reduction (and half of the reduction in the depth of poverty) is on account of the very large incentive effect of …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of … income support and tax credits not been implemented. These reforms have also contributed to substantially reduce poverty …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

Bislang beschränkt sich die Messung von Armut und Ungleichheit in der deutschen Armutsberichterstattung im Wesentlichen … Armutslückenverhältnis wird auf Ebene der Analyseregionen durch das aktuelle Vorgehen in der Regel überschätzt. Die Ungleichheit in der … Armutsberichterstattung zu erwarten ist. Deutliche Unterschiede zwischen den Landesteilen bleiben bestehen, allerdings wirkt die Ungleichheit …

developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

Wohlfahrt, Ungleichheit und Armut. Dies gilt vor allem für länderspezifische Analysen und/oder für länderübergreifende …, 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 …

Einkommensverteilung, zur Ungleichheit und zur Armut. Das vorliegende Diskussionspapier stellt Äquivalenzskalen auf der Basis von Konsum …, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …

, daß Ungleichheit und Armut in den Vereinigten Staaten gößer sind als in Deutschland. Alle Personengruppen zusammen … 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 …

is in paid work. Working households comprised 37% of those below the official poverty line in 1994-95 and 58% in 2017 …-18. Much of that increase is due to trends that seem straightforwardly positive: lower poverty rates among pensioners and … rate of poverty in house holds where someone works. We examine the reason for the increased in-work relative poverty rate …