In this paper we study determinants of relative poverty among immigrants and natives in Denmark and Sweden during the … restricted to tied movers and refugees. We use 60 percent of the median in the distribution of equivalent disposable as poverty … line. Data comes from two large panels based on administrative data. We find that immigrants have higher poverty rates than …

health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …

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 … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …

The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling … for initial conditions, past poverty status and unobserved heterogeneity in 14 European Countries for the period 1994 … very important policy implications, since if the former is the main cause of poverty it is of paramount importance to break …

’s (1997) histogram-location approach and apply it to employee micro data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP …