assessing the consequences of the Ageing Working Group projections on the adequacy of social security pensions. We use a … microsimulation model and examine three countries: Belgium, Germany and Italy. Adequacy is assessed on the basis of the replacement … rate, the redistributive impact of pensions and the different risks of poverty. Pension beneficiaries are compared to wage …

-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …

-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that …

shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …

, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …