This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at …

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 presents a way to explore how macroeconomic shifts cause inequality changes. It is based on the backwardness … control over the direct impact on inequality changes caused by macroeconomic changes that affects the relative competitiveness … unobserved characteristics). The decomposition methodology here proposed shows to be consistent under few assumptions (log normal …

the index to investigate the sources of this inequality using both a health production function and reduced form approach … contribution to income-related inequality in health outcomes. Using the reduced form approach it finds the greatest contribution to …

We show how classic source-decomposition and subgroup-decomposition methods can be reconciled with regression … approach. The LIS database is used to compare the approaches using an analysis of the changing contributions to inequality in …

Shorrocks' axiomatic approach and the Theil-based decomposition). The role of transfers and taxes in mitigating total inequality …This paper examines inequality patterns in the 1990s in Poland, Russia and Hungary. We consider three different … definitions of income and analyse the contributions to inequality of their main components using LIS micro data. Inequality is …

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … implement the decomposition methodologies of Fields (2003) and Yun (2006). I find that during the sub-period 1999-2002 each of … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality …