, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …

, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups … income ; inequality ; poverty …

This paper explores trends in inequality and poverty using both market and after-tax and transfer income in the period … during and after the Great Recession (through 2011). Using market income (or wages), inequality and poverty rose sharply … poverty increase was muted. Tax and transfer policies lowered inequality and poverty, but those policies were not equal across …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

In our efforts to better understand how policies geared towards poverty reduction may impact teen childbirth, we … to persistent poverty counties (i.e. counties that had poverty rates of 20% or more for the past 30 years) as measured by … poverty counties compared to their non-persistent poverty counterparts. Therefore, antipoverty measures such as 10 …

behavior among poor populations is conceptualizing oneself as financially insecure, which we term “poverty identity.” Two …. We suggest that the persistence of scarcity can make poverty a continually salient characteristic by which the truly …

The article argues that the puzzles of stagnating poverty rates amidst high growth and declining unemployment in the US … employed people. Bad jobs are those that do not offer full-time work. While good jobs help households escape poverty, bad jobs … do not. Also, lower JMP reduces poverty, but higher JMP pulls down families under the poverty line. The paper suggests …