time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only …

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 …

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 …

This paper compares poverty in the U.K. with 19 other countries. It is of particular interest because it uses the third …. The main finding of this paper is that the overall pre-transfer poverty rate for the U.K. is the fifth highest our of the … security benefits is to reduce the poverty rate but leaves the U.K. with the third highest, next only to the U.S. and Russia …

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 …

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 …

This paper surveys a dozen international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution and older people in … over the past two decades in most countries. Although there remain pockets of poverty among the elderly, the old are …

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 …

blessing if lived out in poverty. This study investigated the relationship between individual characteristic of never married …

This study investigates the relationship between the welfare state and poverty with multiple measures of the welfare … state and poverty in an unbalanced panel of 18 Western nations from 1967 to 1997. While addressing the limitations of past … research, the analysis shows that social security transfers and public health spending significantly reduce poverty. Less …