; Germany ; USA ; distribution of income ; inequality ; poverty …, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West … Germany 1983. It is a part of a joint US and German research project comparing equivalence scales with consistent methods and …

, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West … Germany 1983. It is a part of a joint US and German research project comparing equivalence scales with consistent methods and … Germany based on actual available individual consumption expenditure data shows a variety of interesting results with regard …

. -- income instability ; poverty ; inequality ; economic growth ; growth elasticity of poverty ; poverty trap …, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel …

information, it is already a challenge to derive interesting parameter like inequality or poverty for the individual countries … and global income, poverty and inequality for the period 1980-2013 only based on income quintiles of 178 countries …

consistent assessments of social welfare, inequality and poverty embodied in a given income distribution. Methods: We propose … distributions. Social planners commonly use two SWFs: SWFε implied by income inequality aversion (ε) and SWFv implied by rank … inequality aversion (v). However, a voluntary choice of ε or v may result in inconsistent assessments of social welfare embodied …

case studies rather than cross-country regression analysis; (ii) the phenomenon of increasing inequality; (iii) different …) alternative modes of redistribution in face of inequality increasing tendencies. …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

, education and childcare expenditure on estimates of income inequality and poverty for 24 European countries. The empirical … results show significant effects of public in-kind transfers on the level of income inequality and poverty for all countries …. Over the period 2006–2018, inequality and poverty estimates display rather different trends across European countries. …

inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively … that gives rise to this perverse effect of a transfer on inequality is a non-empty open subset of all preference profiles …. A robust example illustrates this result. -- a rank-preserving inequality-narrowing transfer ; the Gini coefficient …