Trends and Driving Factors in Income Distribution and Poverty in the OECD Area

Förster, Michael; Pellizzari, Michele

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“…These results on overall trends in poverty and inequality set the context for the more detailed results which follow. This result is in line with the findings of Förster and Pellizzari (2000) and Smeeding (2001).…”

Section: The Income Status Of Older People In Britain and Germanysupporting

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“…The equivalence scale is approximated by the square root of the household size, as commonly used in cross-national comparisons (e.g. Förster and Pellizzari 2000). By examining equivalised income rather than total household income, we automatically 6 We refer to and Böheim and Jenkins (2000) for a more elaborate discussion on the derivation of annual income in SOEP and BHPS, respectively.…”

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Income mobility in old age in Britain and Germany

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The increases in human longevity and early retirement in recent decades have posed new challenges for policy makers, and require a comprehensive understanding of the processes that influence the economic resources of older people. This paper examines the income mobility experienced by older people living in Britain and Germany during the 1990s, and identifies the influential personal attributes and lifecourse events. The analysis uses British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) panel data. The comparative perspective yields insights about the different income experiences of older people in the two markedly different welfare regimes. It is found that old-age income mobility has been more pronounced in Britain than in Germany, and that in both countries its occurrence was strongly associated with changes in living arrangements, with the employment status of co-residents, and with widowhood among women. Unemployment during working life associated significantly with negative late-life income mobility. Among those on low incomes, a high share of income from an earnings-related pension had a significant and positive effect in both countries. To reduce downward income mobility in old age, particularly among widows, there is a need to strengthen the social safety-net. Policies are required to encourage flexible living arrangements in old age, as well as to give greater protection in later life from unemployment during working life, especially in Germany.

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“…Official publications and academic studies have shown a substantial increase in income inequality in the United States over the last twenty years (Katz and Autor, 1999; Economic Report of the President, 1999; Levy, 1999;Forster and Pellizzari, 2000). In this section, the methods developed in Sections 2 and 3 are used to quantify the contributions of various factors in accounting for the amount of labor earnings inequality at a point in time (the "levels" question) and also the increase in inequality of labor earnings (the "differences" question).…”

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Accounting for Income Inequality and its Change: A New Method, with Application to the Distribution of Earnings in the United States

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Abstract[Excerpt] This paper devises a new method for using the information contained in income-generating equations to "account for" or "decompose" the level of income inequality in a country and its change over time. In the levels decomposition, the shares attributed to each explanatory factor are independent of the particular inequality measure used. In the change decomposition, methods are presented to break down the contribution of each explanatory factor into a coefficients effect, a correlation effect, and a standard deviation effect. In an application to rising earnings inequality in the United States, it is found that schooling is the single most explanatory variable, only one other variable (occupation) has any appreciable role to play, and all of schooling's effect was a coefficients effect. Forthcoming: Research in Labor EconomicsABSTRACT This paper devises a new method for using the information contained in incomegenerating equations to "account for" or "decompose" the level of income inequality in a country and its change over time. In the levels decomposition, the shares attributed to each explanatory factor are independent of the particular inequality measure used.In the change decomposition, methods are presented to break down the contribution of each explanatory factor into a coefficients effect, a correlation effect, and a standard deviation effect. In an application to rising earnings inequality in the United States, it is found that schooling is the single most explanatory variable, only one other variable (occupation) has any appreciable role to play, and all of schooling's effect was a coefficients effect.

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“…Εκτός αυτού, σύμφωνα με πρόσφατα στοιχεία από τον OECD (Forster, Pellizzari, 2000), υπάρχουν νοικοκυριά με εργαζόμενους, τα οποία βρίκονται σε κακή οικονομική κατάσταση, ενώ σε άλλες περι πτώσεις εντοπίζονται νοικοκυριά με καλύτερη οικονομική κατάσταση. Η πόλωση αυτή αναμένεται να είναι περισσότερο οξυμμένη όταν η ανα λογία των εργαζομένων εμφανίζει διακυμάνσεις.…”

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Trends and Driving Factors in Income Distribution and Poverty in the OECD Area

Cited by 61 publications

References 51 publications

Income mobility in old age in Britain and Germany

Income mobility in old age in Britain and Germany

Accounting for Income Inequality and its Change: A New Method, with Application to the Distribution of Earnings in the United States

Περιφερειακες Διαστασεις Της Διανομης Του Εισοδηματος Και Της Φτωχειας Στην Ελλαδα Α' Ενοτητα

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