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international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about …
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been made in the US labour market, using a dynamic panel probit model. The estimated income effect of higher housing wealth … reinforced by wealth and earned income. … is virtually zero and that of financial assets wealth is positive, increasing the retirement probability. The …
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Many European high-income countries face a rapid increase in the number of immigrants from low- and middle-income … faring? Here we study poverty rates and determinants of poverty among natives and persons born in Bosnia, Iran, Iraq …, Yugoslavia and Turkey living in Denmark or Sweden in 2010. Income data on all such persons aged 65 to 82 living in the two …
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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 … two criteria. First, the disposable income of the household in which the person lived in 2007 must be below 60 per cent of …
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Focus in the paper is on poverty among immigrants and refugees 50 years and older coming to Denmark from countries … become eligible for State pension. Poverty rates by national background are described using alternative household concepts …. Next, a number of background factors of relevance for poverty are summarized. We focus on age, gender, marital status …
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Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further … highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty … review two common uses of poverty imputation methods that aim at tracking poverty over time and estimating poverty dynamics …
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Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …
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including wealth are considerably lower than income‐based measures; (2) poverty rates of the elderly are more affected than … Belgium and Germany, two countries with similar living standards and income poverty rates, but very different levels and …Most poverty studies build on measures that take account of recurring incomes from sources such as labour or social …
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poor material conditions such as subjective poverty or low relative value of wealth significantly increase the probability … find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of … analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …
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program participation among low-income senior (age 60 and older) and non-senior households using data from the 2001 …
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