none for the idea that Scottish households experienced particularly great variations in income, causing them to commit to … overcrowding. We provide evidence that Scottish workers generally spent their rent reduction entirely on food, rather than saving. …

industries high rent and overcrowding are more prevalent. Within cities, but not between cities, variations in infant mortality …

income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty … health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …

in farm incomes and a decline in poverty levels. Our main policy conclusion here is that the commercialization of … agriculture can be conducive to a sustainable increase in smallholder incomes and reduction of poverty levels; however, policies …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other …

. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This …Using a household sample survey for 2006 we show that the Hui population in the rural part of Ningxia autonomous region … of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth …

We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross …-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on …

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … the fact that migration changes the size of the household. The ‘corrected’ impact that does take the change in household …

characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events - using data from the Household Income … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited … resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has …