The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in … the population. It derives the implications of a between-type regressive transfer principle for poverty measures, for the … choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in …

Es stellt sich die Frage, ob bzw. inwieweit Haushalte in Deutschland die Möglichkeiten eines breit gefächerten …

. Das Ausmaß der verdeckten Armut wurde mit Hilfe eines am IAB entwickelten Mikrosimulationsmodells untersucht. Als … verdeckten Armut. Die Ergebnisse der Simulationsrechnungen deuten dennoch darauf hin, dass auch nach der Umsetzung der Hartz … social assistance. The extent of hidden poverty was examined by using a microsimulation model developed by the IAB. The data …

techniques for fuel poverty measurement. Based on household data from Germany, figures that would result from different fuel …Fuel poverty measurement consists of two independent parts: firstly, the definition of an adequate fuel poverty line …, and secondly, techniques to measure fuel poverty. This paper reviews options for the definition of fuel poverty lines and …

Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone …We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are … decreasing recently in Japan. In Japan and Taiwan even in households cohabiting with children, the poverty rates and income …