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. …

poverty. Results from estimating probability models indicate that social assistance receipt is strongly linked to joblessness …. However, as the Di Bao payments typically are small and many of the urban poor are not receivers, much urban poverty remains …

This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Swedensince 1990 - a period …

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 …

faring? Here we study poverty rates and determinants of poverty among natives and persons born in Bosnia, Iran, Iraq … destination countries are analysed. In both Denmark and Sweden, we report much higher poverty rates among the immigrants studied … Yugoslavia or Turkey who had immigrated to Denmark during the '70s and '80s were more likely to be in poverty in 2010 that their …

This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … Income Project indicate that while, assessed against an absolute poverty line, poverty among Chinese urban residents was … already fairly low in 2007, increasing proportions fell under a relative poverty line from 1988 to 2007. Thus income growth in …

This paper examines immigrant poverty at an older age in Sweden with an emphasis on late-in-life immigrants. We analyse … tax data for the entire Swedish-born and non-Swedish-born population. The poverty status of a household is assessed using …, particularly those who arrive after age 40, be better integrated into the Swedish labour market. To alleviate pov-erty among those …

Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural … residents are deemed as relative poor. Although migrants with rural hukou living in urban China were more prone to twice poverty …

. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This …

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. …