destination countries are analysed. In both Denmark and Sweden, we report much higher poverty rates among the immigrants studied …, Yugoslavia and Turkey living in Denmark or Sweden in 2010. Income data on all such persons aged 65 to 82 living in the two … Yugoslavia or Turkey who had immigrated to Denmark during the '70s and '80s were more likely to be in poverty in 2010 that their …

In this paper we study determinants of relative poverty among immigrants and natives in Denmark and Sweden during the … 1980s and 1990s. Denmark and Sweden share the same properties in a range of labour market and welfare state characteristics … restricted to tied movers and refugees. We use 60 percent of the median in the distribution of equivalent disposable as poverty …

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 … the median equivalent in-come in Sweden as a whole. Second, to be classified as 'twice poor' a household net assets must …

This paper analyses major pension system regulation in four European countries: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the … affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …

Swedish work-line policy increased the risk of poverty by 1.0 percentage point and the Gini coefficient by 0.4. In Sweden, the … perspective, the results indicate that the Nordic model is resilient. In Sweden, a significant increase in the risk of poverty … behavioural effects did not fully offset the negative static effects on the risk-of-poverty rate and inequality. From a policy …