experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record … inequality in employment outcomes, as well as of idiosyncratic changes such as tax reforms. -- income inequality ; poverty … ; unemployment ; kernel density estimation …

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

Earlier research on poverty failed to provide us with consistent measures of its prevalence across space and time. This … is due to the limitations of the available sources and to the difficulty of applying to them the poverty definitions of … modern social science. This article discusses different possible approaches to poverty measurement and the problems …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases … poverty in 4 countries using a US$1.25/day PPP poverty line, in 8 countries using a US$2.50/day line, and in 15 countries …

in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall …