This paper explores for the first time the relationship between immigration and poverty in Spain. Using the EU … Statistics on Income and Living Conditions 2006, we find that both moderate and severe poverty are more acute among migrants than … among nationals and social transfers play no substantial role in reducing poverty in the former case. In addition, using an …

indicators of district-level deprivation: the poverty rate; the food scarcity rate; the (gender-sensitive) literacy rate; the …

This article for first time explores the relationship between immigration and poverty in Spain. Using recent Spanish … household surveys, it is found, first, that both moderate and severe poverty are more acute among immigrants than among …; in the second place, we perform an econometric analysis that shows that the different poverty risk faced by local and …

To estimate the poverty rate at the commune level, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs firstly collects … information on households’ income per capita, and compares their income with a defined poverty line. A household is identified as … a poor one if their income per capita is below the poverty line. Then, the poverty rate of a commune is simply the ratio …

Poverty map is an important for poverty targeting in developing countries. In this study, we combine the Vietnam … Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) in 2002 and the Population Census in 1999 to estimate poverty and inequality indexes of …