This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …

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. …

. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This …

faring? Here we study poverty rates and determinants of poverty among natives and persons born in Bosnia, Iran, Iraq … destination countries are analysed. In both Denmark and Sweden, we report much higher poverty rates among the immigrants studied … Yugoslavia or Turkey who had immigrated to Denmark during the '70s and '80s were more likely to be in poverty in 2010 that their …

This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … Income Project indicate that while, assessed against an absolute poverty line, poverty among Chinese urban residents was … already fairly low in 2007, increasing proportions fell under a relative poverty line from 1988 to 2007. Thus income growth in …

This paper examines immigrant poverty at an older age in Sweden with an emphasis on late-in-life immigrants. We analyse … tax data for the entire Swedish-born and non-Swedish-born population. The poverty status of a household is assessed using …, particularly those who arrive after age 40, be better integrated into the Swedish labour market. To alleviate pov-erty among those …

Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural … residents are deemed as relative poor. Although migrants with rural hukou living in urban China were more prone to twice poverty …

and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where …

In urban China, gender gaps in employment and earnings have steadily increased since the 1990s. Such gender gaps are … demonstrates, despite the rise in gender differences in the urban labor market, the average gender pension gap decreased between … cohort analysis to gain further insights into the reasons for changes in the gender pension gap. We utilized data from the …

Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … data. While native children face yearly poverty risks of less than 10 percent in all three countries and for all years … investigated the increasing proportion of immigrant children with an origin in middle and low income countries have poverty risks …