; poverty ; multi-resolution analysis ; income distribution …In this paper we apply two statistical models to the measurement of polarization to Israeli income data over the past … decade in order to empirically detect income classes as sub-populations of incomes concentrated around an optimal number of …

In this paper we study income polarization by first comparing the efficiency of two statistical models to identify the … number of poles in the income distribution empirically. The statistical models used are a multi-resolution analysis (MRA) and … a log-normal approach (LNA). We then apply the methodology to Israeli income data over the years 1997-2008 in order to …

(based on a poverty threshold of 50 percent of median equivalent income) clearly increased over this period from about 10 … receiving welfare payments was about twice as high as the respective share for the entire population. Poverty head count rates … immigrants and foreigners. On average we find that children in Germany to have lost out in terms of their relative income …

underlies the design of most anti-poverty programs or other redistributive economic policies. Notwithstanding, extended income …Annual, before-tax income is the most common official statistic used to measure economic well-being and therefore … income and age groups, and somewhat different answers about trends in resources over time. More importantly, by explicitly …

The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects … on political involvement unfold over time. Using nine panel datasets from six countries, it analyzes whether income … income has an independent influence. Irrespective of indicator, specification, and method (hybrid models, inclusion of lags …

The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects … on political involvement unfold over time. Using nine panel datasets from six countries, it analyzes whether income … income has an independent influence. Irrespective of indicator, specification, and method (hybrid models, inclusion of lags …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through …

Income Project indicate that while, assessed against an absolute poverty line, poverty among Chinese urban residents was … already fairly low in 2007, increasing proportions fell under a relative poverty line from 1988 to 2007. Thus income growth in …This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and …

reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two … loosing their income because of contamination. Data on six countries confirm a disproportionate impact of the epidemic on the …