This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at … understand the relationships while accounting for the nature of growth. Moreover, the poverty elasticity of output growth was … estimated using regional-level data in 2003, 2006, and 2009. We learned that while the rate of growth matters a lot in 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 …

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 …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the … (benefit amounts, tax bands, etc.), and all other changes in the underlying population (market income inequality, demographic …-benefit changes on inequality when evaluated against a distributionally-neutral benchmark, i.e., a situation where tax …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the … (benefit amounts, tax bands, etc.), and all other changes in the underlying population (market income inequality, demographic …-benefit changes on inequality when evaluated against a distributionally-neutral benchmark, i.e. a situation where tax …

associated derived demands for labor. Individual and community factors may influence the average length of poverty spells. We … poverty rate of the county. We find that moving an individual from one standard deviation above the mean poverty rate to one … standard deviation below the mean poverty rate (from the inner city to the suburbs) lowers the average poverty spell by 20 …

in the U.S. has a major impact on poverty rates, reducing the percent poor in 2004 from 29 percent to 13.5 percent …, estimates which are robust to different measures of the poverty line. We find that, while there are significant behavioral side … effects of many programs, their aggregate impact is very small and does not affect the magnitude of the aggregate poverty …

, 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 poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …