The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of … various poverty lines. Poverty in both periods follows some of the determinants commonly identified in the literature …

fiscal burden on Ukraine, it significantly reduced the propensity of falling into poverty for those in retirement. … many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and despite the fact that population ageing will … increasingly challenge the developing world. This paper uses a natural experiment from Ukraine to estimate the causal effect of a …

poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … scale and a wife's share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the … collective consumption model. Collective poverty rates of widows and widowers turn out to be slightly lower than traditional ones …

and Ukraine after EU enlargement in 2004. Migration incidence, destination choices and migration determinants differ … incidence of poverty. This finding remains robust when attempting to reduce the potential omitted variable bias with an …

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of … various poverty lines. Poverty in both periods follows some of the determinants commonly identified in the literature …

better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and …