This paper examines the effects of the reduction in tariff rates in the Philippines from 1994 to 2000 on unemployment …, distribution and poverty using a CGE-microsimulation approach wherein the representative household assumption in the traditional …

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show … that unemployment, being a homemaker, self-employed, living single, and having a child living close, are associated with an …

, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …

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 …

experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …

-Japan bilateral agreements on unemployment, income distribution and poverty. The results indicate contraction in agriculture but … industry. Unemployment in agriculture deteriorates while in industry improves. Thus income inequality worsens. However, poverty … has the least poverty incidence while rural has the highest. The generally favourable poverty effects are due to the …

As unemployment rises across the European Union (EU) it is important to understand the extent to which the incomes of … of this increase in unemployment. This paper uses the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD to explore these issues, comparing … unemployment benefit is payable, the household situation of the unemployed person, and across countries. …

, but that neither edit check method has much effect on estimated poverty rates or transition rates in poverty. …