aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net … household income are derived. The BHPS net household income definition is modelled on that used in Britain’s official personal … income distribution statistics (Households Below Average Income, HBAI). I show that cross-sectional BHPS distributions track …

. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This … paradox is due to members of Hui households earning more income outside the farm than members of Han households. Particularly … young male Hui living in poor villages have a remarkably high likelihood of migrating, thereby bringing home income to their …

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

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 … from standard analysis. Second, existing studies examine migration’s impact on the poverty of the entire sample. However …

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 … characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events - using data from the Household Income …

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 …

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 …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … estimates. In particular, the equivalence scales applied to cash income are not necessarily appropriate when including non …-cash income, because the receipt of public services is likely to be associated with particular needs. In this paper, we propose a …

is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …This chapter describes the UK income distribution and how it has evolved over the last 50 years. It also includes some … comparisons with the income distributions of other rich countries. Multiple perspectives on the distribution are provided: there …