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

inequality generated in the market? In order to answer these questions, we need to be equipped with adequate measures of …

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 …

growth: liberal welfare states opted for growth and accepted rising inequality, while conservative welfare states tried to … hold back inequality, thereby accepting lower growth, and only the social democratic welfare states were partly able to … overcome that trade-off. The rise in inequality is widely interpreted with regard to globalization and technological change …

The standard poverty lines applied in empirical research tend to be problematic in terms of validity, reliability, ease … related to actual differences in the 'production of poverty' in 11 countries, as measured by the generalised budget approach … substantially higher degree of poverty than representatives of the corporatist type (Belgium, Germany, France). Poverty in the …

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 …

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 …

This article introduces fiscal impoverishment as a novel framework for comparative poverty research. We invert standard … analyses of welfare state policy and household poverty by focusing not on poverty alleviation but poverty creation and … finance the public sector serve to push households (further) into poverty. We estimate that across rich democracies on average …