Emerging evidence suggests that COVID-19 has amplified existing gender divisions that disadvantage women. What is the … distribution. Our analysis shows why accounting for intra-household gender inequality is crucial to ameliorating the pandemic … market opportunities and outcomes - has for the large part relied on population wide differences between men and women. Using …

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 …

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 …

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 … household composition and employment exhibited some common features but also very substantial variation. The share of single …

Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For … those implied by the ‘square root of household size’ equivalence scale. Our results have important implications when …

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 …

measure the fuel poverty extent. Second, we implement a multivariate statistical approach to untangle the fuel poor household … fuel poverty explanatory factors in Egypt and Jordan. First, we use the "Low income - High Consumption" indicator to … profile. Then, to explore the factors driving the risk of falling into fuel poverty situations we use a logistic regression …

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 …

Despite its centrality to contemporary inequality, working poverty is often popularly discussed but rarely studied by … circa 2000. We demonstrate that working poverty does not simply mirror overall poverty and that there is greater cross …-national variation in working than overall poverty. We then examine four explanations for working poverty: demographic characteristics …