The standard poverty lines applied in empirical research tend to be problematic in terms of validity, reliability, ease … related to actual differences in the 'production of poverty' in 11 countries, as measured by the generalised budget approach …. Bivariate results from the Luxembourg Income Study indicate that liberal regimes (Australia, Canada, UK, USA) attain a …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

global middle class in the US and similar in size to that in Europe. Cross-country analysis of the relationship between the …

Using cross-sections of microdata from Surveys of Consumer Finance and Surveys of Labour and Income Dynamics, we … hours of mothers have increased. While long hours of paid work were mostly characteristic of higher-income families during … the 1970's, by 2006 over half of families supplying more than 80 paid hours are from the bottom half of the income …

, the elasticity of redistribution to poor classes to their income has decreased over the last decade, suggesting a … reduction of the policies in support of low income individuals. …

Japan, a larger extent of income inequality is manifest particularly among households with young children. The poverty rate … is not differentiated as largely as in other countries by household income. Poor or rich, people strongly desire more …

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The current benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every …

inequality in income is higher for men than for women both in Belgium and in the Netherlands. In order to minimize poverty and … tested on two cases namely Belgium and the Netherlands. Based on micro data on household income as found in the LIS database …, pensioners are compared on their poverty rates and inequality. The redistribution paradox states that poverty will be the highest …

, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom; and analyses their impact on current pension income. The main focus is analyzing the … current trends of income distribution using a birth cohort perspective. In addition, a detailed analysis of these trends is … included by income quintiles/deciles and pension income sources. The study is a cohort design, where the data are pooled for …

affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty … different regulatory approaches may, in the end, have quite diverse implications on income inequality among the elderly. A …-sectional data (around 2000 - wave V and mid of 2000s - wave VI) from the Luxembourg Income Study Database to show current outcomes …