Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Förster, M. F.
Right arrow Articles by Vleminckx, K.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Related Collections
Right arrow C81 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data
Right arrow I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Right arrow P36 - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics; Health, Education and Training, Welfare, and Poverty
Right arrow O15 - Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Right arrow D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Right arrow D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Socio-Economic Review 2:191-212 (2004)
© Oxford University Press and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 2004. All rights reserved.

International comparisons of income inequality and poverty: findings from the Luxembourg Income Study1

Michael F. Förster and Koen Vleminckx

Correspondence: koen.vleminckx{at}soc.kuleuven.ac.be

This paper reviews many of the unique contributions of LIS in the field of empirical comparative analysis of income inequality and poverty over the past two decades, as a complement to Atkinson's article in this issue. It presents an account of poverty and inequality research based on LIS as expressed in its numerous working papers. More substantively, this paper analyses the most recent basic indicators available through LIS to juxtapose international trends in inequality and poverty and shows that in most nations these trends are not the same. In closing it discusses a few of the main challenges for the future development of microdata poverty and inequality analysis. In particular, this paper makes use of the LIS ‘Key Figures’ data which are directly available to any and all users just by clicking on the LIS website (http://www.lisproject.org/keyfigures.htm).

Key Words: JEL classification: C810 Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data, I320 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.