Our study extends research on the feminization of poverty by analyzing the variation in women's, men's and feminized … estimates of adult women's and men's poverty and the ratio of women's to men's poverty with two different poverty measures. We … feminization of poverty is nearly universal across affluent Western democracies 1969-2000. Second, we show that women's, men's and …

) poverty rates are much higher than in the Netherlands (universal minimum pension). Poverty rates are higher for elderly women … inequality in income is higher for men than for women both in Belgium and in the Netherlands. In order to minimize poverty and … tested on two cases namely Belgium and the Netherlands. Based on micro data on household income as found in the LIS database …

countries. Today there are more older women than any other time in history. Living longer may become a burden rather than a … blessing if lived out in poverty. This study investigated the relationship between individual characteristic of never married … older women and wealth. The survey data was collected by the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) for this quantitative …

percent of the country differences in the gender-poverty-gap. Both composition effects and country characteristics are better …In this paper we describe and explain country differences in the effect of gender on the risk to become poor, using … data from the Luxembourg Income Study on 22 industrialized countries. Although in most countries women are more likely to …

-national portrait of gender and poverty shift when we consider person-level income as well as household-level income? We conclude that …: women's market income lags men's everywhere; public income transfers matter for reducing poverty disparities by gender …This paper assesses women's poverty in 26 diverse LIS countries - five Anglophone countries, six Continental European …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

between men and women who live in a couple were examined and compared with the gender wage gaps for single individuals. The … (1986-2000). Women, on average, contribute less to a couple's income than men. Among the included countries, within … significant negative impact on the female employment decision mainly in the old EU member states. Finally, gender wage gaps …

We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are … Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone … decreasing recently in Japan. In Japan and Taiwan even in households cohabiting with children, the poverty rates and income …

The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in … the population. It derives the implications of a between-type regressive transfer principle for poverty measures, for the … choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in …

The objective of this paper is to distinguish between different types of working poverty, on the basis of the … mechanisms that produce it. Whereas the poverty literature identifies a myriad of risk factors and of categories of disadvantaged … workers, we focus on three immediate causes of working poverty, namely low wage rate, weak labour force attachment, and high …