below-average poverty risk while also affecting relative income poverty thresholds. Examining eleven countries for which … UK. A counterfactual exercise assessed the impact of these changes in composition on relative income poverty rates by …Changes in household structures and employment patterns alter the balance between households with an above- versus a …

particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the … income data by comparing them to those obtained through the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU …

This book examines poverty as a structural problem caused by the way economic systems operate. It poses a simple … caught in a vicious circle. They lack sufficient access to education, credit and other means to generate income, so they earn … lower wages, which in turn prevents them from accumulating the assets they need to increase future income. The authors …

This book examines poverty as a structural problem caused by the way economic systems operate. It poses a simple … caught in a vicious circle. They lack sufficient access to education, credit and other means to generate income, so they earn … lower wages, which in turn prevents them from accumulating the assets they need to increase future income. The authors …