This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

practice. The results show that despite different fiscal effects, policies overall mostly reduced poverty and inequality and …, but generally also contributed more to poverty and inequality reduction than structural policy reforms. … countries. We use the standard microsimulation-based decomposition method, separating further the effect of structural policy …

This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory … associated with various measures of income inequality. This negative association is robust to alternative firm-level capital …

in global miserliness over the last 30 years. -- Miser index ; poverty ; affluence ; inequality ; development …In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz …

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents … evidence against the existence of poverty convergence in aggregate data despite the conditional convergence of per capita … income levels and the close linkage between growth and poverty reduction in standard neoclassic growth theory and associated …

Current estimates of global poverty vary substantially across studies. In this paper we undertake a sensitivity … analysis to highlight the importance of methodological choices in estimating global poverty. We measure global poverty using … different data sources, parametric and nonparametric estimation methods, and multiple poverty lines. Our results indicate that …

transfers that do not include pensions, exert a prominent impact on inequality and poverty. Also significant is the effect of … the GDP per capita. The impact of employment on inequality and poverty is not empirically sound. The same holds for the …Employing panel data techniques, we investigate the macroeconomic and institutional determinants of inequality and …