income given in the literature apply to the selected OECD countries for the 1980-2000 period. Third, the paper concludes with … countries that currently participate in the LIS. Average income levels as well as indicators of poverty and inequality are … well above the average household incomes. The incidence of poverty tends to be less severe among farm households than non …

-income poverty rates and greater disposable income poverty rates than do children in native-born families by a factor of about 2 to 1 … (EU-SILC) allow estimates of the extent to which immigrant and nonimmigrant children are poor across a wide range of rich … nations. These data also allow estimates of the effects of social transfers that reduce poverty amongst all families with …

-sectional data (around 2000 - wave V and mid of 2000s - wave VI) from the Luxembourg Income Study Database to show current outcomes … affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …

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 …

when a number of indicators are used. One of the aspects analysed are outcomes, i.e. the prevalence of poverty and the … poverty reduction effectiveness. To analyse outcomes the LIS data are used. Six different countries are included into … comparison. The findings show that the countries vary to a large extent in their effectiveness of reducing poverty. Further, they …