Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increasing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2007, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

evidence that Federalism is a strong predictor of greater income inequality in developing economies. It is also a strong … appears to be a leap from the frying pan into the fire of even greater income inequality and poverty incidence. …

This paper summarizes the main results on changes in poverty and inequality in Argentina and the world in the last …

The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus … on the share of the population that are more relatively deprived. It follows the dominance approach to making inequality … multidimensional inequality “frontier”, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate …

-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of … summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns concerning the trajectory of inequality through the reform period. We …

-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …

rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …

income poverty and inequality in Latin Americaand the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC with other …