extra costs of living associated with disability in Ireland. We also derive estimates of the cost of disability for … Ireland is large, varies by severity of disability, and across household types. Overall our findings have important … implications for measures of poverty in Ireland. …

differences in poverty rates between people with and without a disability. Secondly, the estimated costs reflected in this study …. This paper estimates the costs of disability in Australia using the standard-of-living approach. This approach defines the … without a disability. We analyse data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey using a …

poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … of scale of living in a couple, and a sharing rule that governs the intra-household allocation of resources. The model is … scale and a wife's share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the …

, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Hungary and Russia. As well as using standard relative poverty definitions the paper examines flows …This paper compares child poverty dynamics cross-nationally using panel data from seven nations: the USA, Britain … patterns of income mobility and poverty dynamics across the seven countries. The key exception is Russia, where the economic …

This paper uses two comparable data sets from South Africa to examine the effect of household characteristics on … poverty and living standards and how they have changed over the five years following the dismantling of apartheid. I find that … non-educated has increased. A household, where the head has more than secondary schooling performs significantly better …

on the seventies, but poverty remained a problem. Understanding the performance and spatial distribution of poverty and … - high poverty - high inequality trap in Paraguay. How did poverty and inequality change during the 1990s. Did inequality …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequal- ity/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the …- tors. We provide an illustration on France and Ireland and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order …. -- Tax-bene t policy ; inequality ; poverty ; decomposition ; microsimulation …