The paper examines the development of incomes in Germany at different welfare levels, together with current trends in … information on incomes starting in the mid-1980s. Results show that increased inequality is mainly in pre-governmental income and … increasing labor market inequality is further intensified by decreasing redistributive activities of private households. Intra …

changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We …-poor households only to changes in beverage prices. Additionally, changes in household economic welfare due to price increases vary … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor …

and inequality, and by their distributional characteristic. Our findings suggest that public transfers can be effective … unit subsidies limit the redistributive, poverty and inequality impacts of even the most targeted social assistance …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

-price elasticities. Rice has mean expenditure elasticity of 0.36 and mean own-price elasticity of -0.80. Using the estimated elasticities …, the study finds that when rice prices increase by 20 percent, average household welfare rises by 1.3 percent, yet it is …

lack of information and some misperceptions on the distinction between the welfare consequences of higher versus more … welfare heavily depend on the domestic structure of the economy. The most important factors to consider are the different … impact of higher substantially outweigh the effects of more volatile prices on farmers' welfare across the entire income …