. Much of that literature supposes that the distributional impact should be measured in an anonymous fashion. The income … ‘European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions' (EU-SILC) survey …

Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income … explain income dissatisfaction best among all dichotomizations of income. To this end, several model settings are considered … lines is also investigated. -- Household income ; poverty line ; income satisfaction …

' long-term income situation. …

Income-expenditure surveys typically provide incomes on the household level. As households can differ in size and needs … data from the Luxembourg Income Study for examining the sensitivity of the Gini and the Theil index to the chosen … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. -- income …

The at-risk-of-poverty rate is one of the three indicators used for monitoring progress towards the Europe 2020 poverty … policies. However, due to complicated nature of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) poverty … risk estimates are published with a 2 to 3 year delay. This paper presents a method that can be used to estimate ("nowcast …

standards have improved considerably as the European integration process has unfolded. EU28 income inequality has steadily … declined, mostly as a result of the macroeconomic convergence of new EU-accession countries. EU15 income inequality fell … terms of poverty reduction. It also shows that the patterns of income convergence across member states differ across …

We compute rates of absolute upward income mobility for the 1960-1987 birth cohorts in eight countries in North America … above 70%. Decomposition analysis suggests that differences in the marginal income distributions, especially the amount of … cross-cohort income inequality, were the primary driver of differing mobility rates across countries. We also demonstrate …

(2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using Markov chains to model the transition between different employment states … systems as those established in the EU are able to offset the negative impact of unemployment risk on the portfolio … persistence. -- Precautionary savings ; unemployment insurance ; long-term unemployment ; income uncertainty …