This paper examines the relative well-being of Portuguese immigrants in Luxembourg by looking at non-monetary, or ‘direct indicators’ of material deprivation. The paper not only documents deprivation differentials between immigrants and natives, but also models the association between...

We apply fuzzy sets theory to measure the extent of overweight in Luxembourg. This methodology permits to differentiate between mild or severe forms of overweight and to identify the sub-populations which contribute most to global overweight. The application to residents of Luxembourg shows that...

We show in this paper that the growth rate of the Sen index is multi-decomposable, that is, decomposable simultaneously by groups and income sources. The multi-decomposition of the poverty growth yields respectively: the growth rate of the poverty incidence (poverty rate) decomposed by groups,...