Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … calculations are correlated with the macroeconomic variables economic growth, inflation, and general unemployment. At the peak of … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …

effort against crime. Among the implications of the model are that rising inequality will lead to more expenditure on … income class. Taking into account the response of criminals and victims, rising inequality can actually lead to less crime if … middle class suffers from higher crime densities as inequality increases, as the increased spending on protection by the …

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use …

, 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 …

municipalities. Our results point to a beneficial effect of income inequality on school performance for children with middle educated …

Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between … 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of … labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to estimate the first-order effects of taxes and social spending on …

How society invests in human capital is important for economic growth and social welfare. The paper reports from the …

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …