We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the … and in the construction of income poverty lines that uniformly reflect the costs of the basic requirements of human beings …

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 … corrected for the change in household size. -- migration ; income ; poverty ; underestimation ; reference groups …

. The present value of human capital is determined by all future income flows, which at the same time constitute the … individual as well as the total tax base of a nation. Therefore, the income of the productive population determines the total tax … well as the future gross income flows. The costs of public goods and the transfer expenditures have to be financed from the …

This paper asks whether income mobility in South Africa over the last decade has indeed been as impressive as currently … thought. Using new national panel data (NIDS), substantial measurement error in reported income data is found, which is … further corroborated by a provincial income data panel (KIDS). By employing an instrumental variables approach using two …

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The current benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every …

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The current benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every …

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every percentile …

migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural-urban income or consumption gap. Urban labor …

life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …

This study investigates the income of self-employed based on the panel Labour Markets and Social Security of the …