We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are … 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 …

are primarily responsible for whether older women find themselves in poverty or not. Older men and women in countries with … relatively generous (or well targeted) social retirement and social transfer benefits have lower levels of poverty. A caveat of … likely to be in poverty than renters. As the value of homes and homeownership increase, housing will become an especially …

Substantial cross-national differences in poverty alleviation are well documented, but theextent to which different …-targeted provisions and means-tested benefits reduce relative economic poverty in different institutional settings. It is shown that the … poverty alleviation across countries. The study also presents a new method for estimating the anti-poverty effects of separate …

antipoverty policy. While all nations value low poverty, high levels of economic self-reliance, and equality of opportunity for … to avoid poverty. We begin by reviewing international concepts and measures of poverty. The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS …) database contains the information needed to construct comparable poverty measures for more than 30 nations. It allows …

feminization of poverty. First, there is the issue of household structure. Second, there is the issue of occupational sex … relatively high poverty rates experienced by female-headed families. …

-country empirical studies have found that welfare state generosity is strongly associated with low relative poverty, but there has been … virtually no cross-national analysis of welfare state effects on absolute poverty, which is at the heart of the critics … poverty for working-age households in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States from the mid-1970s to …