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Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … proposed method offers poverty estimates based on administrative data that are mostly statistically insignificantly different …
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Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012220356
measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates. These estimates are not statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140020
measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates. These estimates are not statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140318
This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … Income Project indicate that while, assessed against an absolute poverty line, poverty among Chinese urban residents was … already fairly low in 2007, increasing proportions fell under a relative poverty line from 1988 to 2007. Thus income growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022781
the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202429
the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228751
This paper examines immigrant poverty at an older age in Sweden with an emphasis on late-in-life immigrants. We analyse … tax data for the entire Swedish-born and non-Swedish-born population. The poverty status of a household is assessed using …, particularly those who arrive after age 40, be better integrated into the Swedish labour market. To alleviate pov-erty among those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762133
This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364972
faring? Here we study poverty rates and determinants of poverty among natives and persons born in Bosnia, Iran, Iraq … destination countries are analysed. In both Denmark and Sweden, we report much higher poverty rates among the immigrants studied … Yugoslavia or Turkey who had immigrated to Denmark during the '70s and '80s were more likely to be in poverty in 2010 that their …
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