hand, poverty increased in absolute terms. In contrast in the following years of rapid economic growth, the growth in the … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited … resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has …

This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of … Göteborg for the years 1925, 1936, 1947, 1958 as well as more recent (1983, 1994 and 2003) information. We define poverty as … living in a household with a disposable income lower than a poverty line that represents a constant purchasing power all …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …

This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have … growing more rapidly. The trend whereby fewer persons in urban China have incomes that are lower than the poverty line … continued. This also applied to the number of people falling below the relative poverty line. …

Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … data. While native children face yearly poverty risks of less than 10 percent in all three countries and for all years … investigated the increasing proportion of immigrant children with an origin in middle and low income countries have poverty risks …

This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden … using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much …. Regression analysis shows that high neighbourhood poverty rates are mainly due to parents' low employment and to low parental …

Scandinavian welfare states. After a brief survey of a few earlier studies on immigrant poverty, we present Denmark and Sweden as …. Poverty rates, analysed relative to different background factors, are fairly high, in particular when considering the welfare … the two countries. – poverty ; immigrant ; panel data …

Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated … line, almost one-third of the ethnic minorities experienced poverty during the three years studied while the corresponding … ethnic majority. The relatively high poverty rates for ethnic minorities in rural China are found to be due to higher rates …

In this paper we study determinants of relative poverty among immigrants and natives in Denmark and Sweden during the … restricted to tied movers and refugees. We use 60 percent of the median in the distribution of equivalent disposable as poverty … line. Data comes from two large panels based on administrative data. We find that immigrants have higher poverty rates than …