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Le disuguaglianze regionali nella distribuzione del reddito. Parte seconda: Un'analisi delle famiglie italiane a rischio di povertà
Malerba, Giuseppina - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2011
second part of a research on regional inequalities in income distribution. Poverty tends to be a multi-dimensional concept …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369301
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Le disuguaglianze regionali nella distribuzione del reddito. Parte prima: Un'analisi della povertà delle famiglie italiane
Malerba, Giuseppina - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2009
The aim of this paper is the definition and measurement of the concept of poverty of families in nine regions of Italy …. Poverty tends to be a multi-dimensional concept and the use of monetary income as a single measure of well-being can be … national poverty line in targeting for social policies might introduce inequality within regions and families who face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502573
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Is India Better off Today than 15 Years ago? A Robust Multidimensional Answer
Gravel, Nicolas; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2007
This paper provides a robust normative evaluation of the spectacular growth episode that India has experienced in the last 15 years. Specifically, the paper compares the evolution, between 1998, 1996 and 2001 of the distribution of several important individual attributes on the basis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969042
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Matching household surveys with DHS data to create nationally representative time series of poverty : an application to Bolivia
Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009 - This version: December 19, 2009
Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258036
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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021
addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650402
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Income distribution in Germany : real income on the rise since 1991 but more people with low incomes
Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 21, pp. 181-190
remained high. These are the findings of the present study based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. The risk-of-poverty … rate was 16.8 percent in 2015, in comparison to around 11 percent in the mid-1990s. The risk-of-poverty rate among the … migration background - those who were born in a foreign country and then migrated to Germany. The increase in the risk-of-poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847472
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Inequality and poverty in Greece : changes in times of crisis
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros; … - 2017
effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the …-economic groups rose. All poverty indicators suggest that poverty increased substantially, especially when "anchored" poverty lines … are used. Substantial changes are observed regarding the structure of poverty. Despite an increase in the population share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119583
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Inequality and poverty in Greece : changes in times of crisis
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros; … - 2017
effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the …-economic groups rose. All poverty indicators suggest that poverty increased substantially, especially when "anchored" poverty lines … are used. Substantial changes are observed regarding the structure of poverty. Despite an increase in the population share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732003
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Income inequality in Germany stagnating over the long term, but decreasing slightly during the coronavirus pandemic
Grabka, Markus M. - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 11 (2021) 17/18, pp. 125-133
Both wages and needs-adjusted household income increased by ten percent between 2013 and 2018, benefiting all income groups. Wage inequality has been declining for many years and has now again reached the level of the early 2000s. At the same time, the low-wage sector shrank by two percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012542236
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Real incomes increasing, low-income rate decreasing in individual age groups
Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 17/18, pp. 231-239
The number of employed persons in Germany has grown by over five million since 2000, in part due to an increase in immigration. This development is reflected in private household income, which has increased by 12 percent over the same period. Since 2013, all income groups have been benefiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221961