We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or … across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

that child life satisfaction is not associated with household income (poverty), or with a set of new material deprivation … measures of child poverty, introduced to help target effective policies that make a real difference to children's lives. Those …

these tax, transfer and minimum wage reforms on income inequality and poverty based on a microsimulation approach using … to substantially reduce the extent of income inequality and relative income poverty and the paper draws out how the two …

. Institutions that decrease inequality are, however, associated with higher unemployment, and our analysis allows us to quantify the …

distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality indices on variables such as the unemployment …