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Schäfer, Claus - In: Niedriglöhne : die unbekannte Realität: Armut trotz …, (pp. 57-77). 1996

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Working poor : "inequitable" wages in Germany and in Europe! ; (Higher) minimum wages as an instrument of justice?

Schäfer, Claus - In: Income inequality and poverty in Eastern und Western Europe, (pp. 53-67). 1997

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The contribution of social transfers to the reduction of poverty

Longford, Nicholas T.; Nicodemo, Catia - 2010

We interpret social transfers broadly as a set of measures to reduce or relieve poverty, and study how well this purpose is served in the countries that participated in the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions in 2007. Motivated by the findings, we characterise a social...

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Welfare resilience at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in a selection of European countries : impact on public finance and household incomes

Cantó-Sánchez, Olga; Figari, Francesco; Fiorio, Carlo V. - 2021

market data. We find that income poverty increases in all countries due to the pandemic while inequality remains broadly the …

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European Schemes of Social Assistance : An Empirical Analysis of Set-Ups and Distributive Impacts

Hölsch, Katja; Kraus, Margit - 2014

This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify the systems according to regulatory...

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The effectiveness of Minimum Income schemes in the EU

Almeida, Vanda; De Poli, Silvia; Hernández, Adrian - 2022

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Globalization, EU enlargement and income distribution

Breuss, Fritz - 2007

Advanced industrial countries have been exhibiting a steady decline of the labor income shares in the last two decades. We explain this phenomenon by resorting to the old Stolper-Samuelson theorem. The conclusions concerning the impact of free trade on the income distribution are unambiguous in...

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Inequality in the impact of the coronavirus shock : evidence from real time surveys

Adams, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, Christopher - 2020 - updated 23 April 2020

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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2010

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap … approach is implemented to test for statistical significance of our results. -- Inequality ; equivalence scale ; equivalent …

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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes

Schröder, Carsten; Bönke, Timm - 2012

Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight … household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality … rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is …

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