, 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 …

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 …

In estimating the impact of migration on income and poverty, existing studies have typically overlooked the fact that …

The persistence of absolute poverty in Brazil is associated with high levels of income inequality. For this article …, this association is the departing point for presenting a schematic evolution of poverty in Brazil in the last three decades …: a sharp decline in the seventies as income grew at high rates; fluctuations of poverty incidence following the short …