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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 …
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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. …
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This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Swedensince 1990 - a period characterized by increased influence from the financial market andextreme economic events - using data from the Household Income Survey. The elderly werenot isolated as pensions were cut,...
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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. …
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hand, poverty increased in absolute terms. In contrast in the following years of rapid economic growth, the growth in the … 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 …
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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 …
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This paper models the relationship between income and reported well-being using latent class techniques applied to panel data from twelve European countries. Introducing both intercept and slope heterogeneity into this relationship, we strongly reject the hypothesis that individuals transform...
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This paper models the relationship between income and reported well-being using latent class techniques applied to panel data from twelve European countries. Introducing both intercept and slope heterogeneity into this relationship, we strongly reject the hypothesis that individuals transform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763608
Most poverty studies build on measures that take account of recurring incomes from sources such as labour or social … ways. Previous studies that have sought to incorporate assets into poverty measures suggest that (1) poverty estimates … including wealth are considerably lower than income‐based measures; (2) poverty rates of the elderly are more affected than …
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