, and inequality and poverty in New Zealand using detailed data from the 1983/84 – 2003/04 Household Economic Survey (HES … examine the determinants of the levels and changes in poverty in New Zealand using both expenditure and income data. We also … apply a newly developed methodology for combining income and expenditure data to produce poverty indicators. …

Poverty indicators often disagree about whether a person is poor or not. Yet, when it comes to assessing whether a … programme is successful in reaching the poor the dominant practice is to use an income poverty indicator. This paper …

The article focuses on issues of households at risk of poverty in a relative conception. Income poverty represents a … situation when the threshold of 0.6 of median income is not achieved. The analysis of a broader definition of poverty bases on …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

education coefficient. Households at risk of poverty are also taken into account. Income inequality is measured by way of the … coefficient, as well as between education and households at risk of poverty. The biggest share is represented by households where … negative dependence between the education level and number of households at risk of poverty. Within analyzed period of five …

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … from standard analysis. Second, existing studies examine migration’s impact on the poverty of the entire sample. However …

analysis of the level of deprivation and pay less attention to income poverty and inequality. Because we consider deprivation … poverty but performs less well in equalising levels of deprivation. The results also show that the immature Southern welfare …

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 …