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

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 …

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 …

blessing if lived out in poverty. This study investigated the relationship between individual characteristic of never married …

The aim is to assess the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance. We will examine the … incidence of poverty among the recipients in relation to the general poverty profile. To answer these questions, the adequacy … and poverty reduction effectiveness of social assistance schemes are examined. On the contrary to earlier studies that …

This paper provides an overview of poverty in North America. In it we look at the three countries of North America …, Mexico, the US, and to a lesser extent Canada and attempt to both describe poverty as it exists in the three countries and … explore some of the correlates of poverty. In doing so, we attempt to bring together the concepts and approaches used mostly …

For a long time conventional wisdom held that income inequality enhances investment and work incentives and thereby is … association between inequality and slower growth across large samples of mainly less developed nations. Researchers also … identified various causal paths through which inequality might reduce growth. Recently, several studies focusing on rich …