poverty reduction impact in most countries, especially in Israel, Italy and most powerfully in Spain. …Changes in household structures and employment patterns alter the balance between households with an above- versus a … below-average poverty risk while also affecting relative income poverty thresholds. Examining eleven countries for which …

poverty among individuals within the same family structure. Background: Family structure is a dominant explanation for racial … inequality in poverty. This overemphasis on an “individual-level” variable results in relatively less attention to the role of … structure intersect in the context of poverty. Method: We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study, the American Community …

Our study contributes to the discussion on the impact of imputed rent on poverty. In this paper, we address the issue … poverty among retirees, who are considered to be an economically vulnerable group. We employ the Luxembourg Income Study … imputed rental income contributes to poverty reduction. This also entails some policy implications in the long run, especially …

over four decades of global data (n =2.85 million couple units, from 45 countries in the LIS repository) we show that intra-household … earnings inequality within a household is systemic, prevalent across disparate societies, and across the entire earnings … distribution. Our analysis shows why accounting for intra-household gender inequality is crucial to ameliorating the pandemic …

affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …

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 …

. Using data on eight advanced economies (Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and United … benefit system. In most countries redistribution within household, through the social safety net and through direct taxes has …

A new basis for an international poverty measurement is proposed based on linear programming for specifying the least … information. The new approach implies much more poverty than the World Bank's, especially in Asia. …

In this study, we examined to what extent family policies differently affect poverty among single-parent households and …, family policies reduced poverty to a greater extent among single-parent households. Paid leave more effectively facilitated … the employment of single parents, thereby reducing their poverty more than among two-parent households. Family allowances …