We study cross-sectional and long-term poverty in Sweden over a period spanning two recessions, and discuss changes in … the policy context. We find large increases in absolute poverty and deprivation during the 1990’s recession but much … smaller increases in 2008-2010. While increases in non-employment contributed to increasing poverty in the 1990’s, the …

the Greek crisis on inequality and poverty in 2009-2014 using the micro-simulation model EUROMOD. Specifically, the paper … inequality and poverty due to the recession. As fiscal consolidation intensified in 2012, tax and benefit policies appear to have … exacerbated the adverse distributional effects of the recession, causing poverty and inequality to rise further. From 2013 …

in overall economic well-being and inequality as well as changes in racial economic inequality over the Great Recession …, using the period from 1989 to 2007 for historical context. We find that while racial inequality increased from 1989 to 2010 …, during the Great Recession racial inequality in terms of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) decreased …

and policy responses in real-time and provide the first application to Germany in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic …

and policy responses in real-time and provide the first application to Germany in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic …

economy in China is struggling in particular, and German products are less in demand—apparently because Germany is relying … already been agreed upon and those still outstanding, people in Germany will likely have noticeably more money in their …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between relative poverty and/or inequality on the one hand and the … other. Using data from the 27 E.U. member states we try to establish a link of prevailing inequality/poverty inside each … positive relationship between higher inequality/poverty at the national level and the size of the economic crisis impact …

paper, we further examine the presence of poverty-based asymmetries in the unpaid work time changes of men and women given … that the role of household production as a coping mechanism may vary by poverty status. We use the 2003-12 American Time …. Our findings reveal that the changes in men's and women's unpaid work time indeed varied by poverty status. In particular …

resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has … hand, poverty increased in absolute terms. In contrast in the following years of rapid economic growth, the growth in the … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited …

household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First …, but with increments being smaller in the European data. Third, we find that wage risk is procyclical in Germany while it …