Surveys, thus combining microdata, and inequality and redistributive indexes was possible to distinguish the progressivity … inequality improvements. …

regional conditions affect the citizens’ preferences for income equality. Higher income inequality leads to stronger …

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to … tax policy effect aggravated income inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle … class' share. The tax policy effect accounts for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up …

developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case …, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in part because of the Millennium Development Goals and the growing …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …