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time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only …
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redistribution in a comparative setting. We use micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine household market inequality … increase in primary household inequality in all 20 countries over the last 25 years (except Ireland). In most countries, the … income inequality, although they appear to have become less effective in doing so since the mid-1990s. We find that the …
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variables are LIS data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25 to 59 and the … inequality has increased in the United States because the country failed to invest sufficiently in education. The main … determinants of market income inequality are (in order of size of the effect) family structure (single mother households), union …
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ways in which social welfare systems operate in different states. Evidence of inequality and poverty is considered for …This paper compares income inequality in former socialist countries with those in a market society, focusing on the … region - the Republic of Karelia. A sensitivity analysis is also done on the techniques used to measure income inequality and …
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countries studied differ in the trends observed in aggregate income, poverty, polarization and income inequality. In the USA and … inequality within and between birth cohorts. At any point in time, less than 11% of aggregate income inequality is due to … intergenerational inequality, but the experience of different birth cohorts over the period has varied widely across countries. The five …
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Comparative research of poverty, income inequality and the effectiveness of income transfer systems has flourished … poverty and income inequality with a special emphasis on their stability. We studied trends of poverty and income inequality … between 1980 and 1995 in nine countries representing three different ideal types of social policy. The differences in poverty …
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measure of the historical racial regime (HRR), and examines how HRR influences contemporary poverty and racial inequality in … contemporary poverty and inequality. … with greater poverty for all and especially not among White Southerners. Rather, a higher level of HRR worsens Black …
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blessing if lived out in poverty. This study investigated the relationship between individual characteristic of never married …
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The aim is to assess the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance. We will examine the … incidence of poverty among the recipients in relation to the general poverty profile. To answer these questions, the adequacy … and poverty reduction effectiveness of social assistance schemes are examined. On the contrary to earlier studies that …
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This paper uses data from the Luxembourg Income Study to analyse cross-national and cross-temporal poverty risks in … welfare state efforts, at the beginning of the 21st century the question of poverty is still highly relevant. It remains today … poverty risks have tended to increase from the early 1980s to the present day. We also show that the cross-national variation …
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