In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …

poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … of scale of living in a couple, and a sharing rule that governs the intra-household allocation of resources. The model is … scale and a wife's share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the …

increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these … in poverty and richness as well and compare them with results that were obtained by a re-weighting procedure. Our results …

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

picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for …Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … outside Turkey to use household survey data from two nationally representative surveys conducted in 1987 and 1994 to get a …

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

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the …

experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record … household structure (in particular the rising share of single parent households), and changes in other socio … returns, and, to a similar extent, by changes in the tax system. Changes in household structures and other household …

that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary … poverty among working households for the whole of the Britain between 1904 and 1937. We offer a number of pieces of … corroborative evidence that give support to our findings. We decompose the poverty reduction into the effects of two proximate …