contributions LIS data 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 …

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 …

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 …