Since the mid-1990s, Brazil has undergone extensive reforms that have finally reversed the dismaying economic … performance of the 1980s. In particular, poverty and inequality indicators have improved dramatically, especially since the late …

and sluggish wages lie at the root of high inequality and poverty. This paper looks at changes in hourly earnings from the … early 1990s to the early 2000s in three relatively stable countries: Brazil, Chile and Mexico. Using econometric techniques … address the link between labour markets and the dynamics of inequality and poverty by comparing the average performance of the …

of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …

1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely … high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and, to a …

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show … increased likelihood of poverty. Less risk of poverty can be found among those that have supervision over the workplace, have …