decreasing recently in Japan. In Japan and Taiwan even in households cohabiting with children, the poverty rates and income …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 …

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 …

The standard poverty lines applied in empirical research tend to be problematic in terms of validity, reliability, ease … single person, which is subsequently generalised to other household types and over time. The empirical analyses try to assess … related to actual differences in the 'production of poverty' in 11 countries, as measured by the generalised budget approach …

tested on two cases namely Belgium and the Netherlands. Based on micro data on household income as found in the LIS database …, pensioners are compared on their poverty rates and inequality. The redistribution paradox states that poverty will be the highest …) poverty rates are much higher than in the Netherlands (universal minimum pension). Poverty rates are higher for elderly women …

and researchers have made in the comparative study of subnational poverty and income inequality. Finally, we conclude with … a brief presentation of the most recent poverty rates for German Länder and Italian Regions derived from the LIS. It is …

overview of poverty among all households and among those with children, presenting multiple poverty measures (relative and …We draw on LIS' various resources to sketch a portrait of child poverty in upper-income countries. We first summarize … past LIS-based scholarship on child poverty, highlighting studies that seek to explain cross-national variation in child …

overview of the development of social inequality in Central and Eastern Europe; and (b) to quantify the change of poverty rates … for leaving poverty, social transfers significantly improve the economic conditions of families in need. Without the …

Using data from the mid-1990s from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we analyze for several household types the effect … of mothers' work participation on families' relative income position and poverty risk. Results are compared across seven …

The aim is to assess the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance. We will examine the … incidence of poverty among the recipients in relation to the general poverty profile. To answer these questions, the adequacy … and poverty reduction effectiveness of social assistance schemes are examined. On the contrary to earlier studies that …