decreasing recently in Japan. In Japan and Taiwan even in households cohabiting with children, the poverty rates and income … configurations differ depending on the marital status of the children. Poverty rates are higher in case of cohabiting with unmarried …We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are …

Using 1999-2001 Luxembourg Income Study data, we examine cross-national patterns of age-specific poverty rates …. Relative to 12 Western countries, Taiwan has a moderate child poverty rate but a much higher elderly poverty rate, leading to … the largest elder-child poverty gap. We show that Taiwan significantly differs from the other countries in three factors …

as a whole and three (mutually exclusive and exhaustive) sub-groups: children (and their families); elders; and childless …