The standard poverty lines applied in empirical research tend to be problematic in terms of validity, reliability, ease … single person, which is subsequently generalised to other household types and over time. The empirical analyses try to assess … related to actual differences in the 'production of poverty' in 11 countries, as measured by the generalised budget approach …

themselves and their households out of poverty by working. The authors find that although the probability of being poor is …

Uses LIS data to study the sensitivity of cross-national income poverty comparisons to the method in which poverty is … measured. Examined are the differences between using absolute and relative poverty comparisons as well as the consequence of … lowering the real value of the poverty line to examine extreme poverty. …

poverty between countries and over time. While poverty can be thought of in many different ways, examining income poverty has … interest. One way to examine differences between societies in this respect is to study the extent and severity of income … a long tradition. This chapter (Draft of Chapter 10 in Handbook on Income Distribution, edited by A.B. Atkinson and F …

In this article we examine the change in the mix of income and benefits that older adults receive as they age, with a … focus on older women. Our study is a crossnational comparison of five OECD countries using the Luxemburg Income Study … database. We investigate the change of private income and social benefits following synthetic cohorts for two decades. Our …

Great strides have been made in reducing poverty amongst the elderly in most rich countries over the past forty years …. But pensioner poverty has not been eradicated, especially in the English-speaking nations. Poverty rates amongst older …, poverty rates rise with both age and changes in living arrangements though living alone has a larger effect for women. Poverty …

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 …

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 …

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