poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … scale and a wife's share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the … collective consumption model. Collective poverty rates of widows and widowers turn out to be slightly lower than traditional ones …

migration, which has become increasingly popular in many Eastern European countries. Our findings indicate that poverty is a …

In this paper we study income polarization by first comparing the efficiency of two statistical models to identify the … number of poles in the income distribution empirically. The statistical models used are a multi-resolution analysis (MRA) and … a log-normal approach (LNA). We then apply the methodology to Israeli income data over the years 1997-2008 in order to …

This paper analyses changes in income portfolios of rural households and its determinants for the case of Ghana in the … to migration. Low-income households increase their income share in particular from local non-farm activities through more …

In this paper we apply two statistical models to the measurement of polarization to Israeli income data over the past … decade in order to empirically detect income classes as sub-populations of incomes concentrated around an optimal number of … components, consistent with the axioms spelled out by Esteban and Ray (1994): alienation and identification, the number of income …

in Armut, definiert über das relative Einkommen, keinen Einfluss auf die Gesundheit ausübt. Bei weiter gefassten … find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of … poor material conditions such as subjective poverty or low relative value of wealth significantly increase the probability …

Microcredit can be an effective tool for tackling the global poverty problem. Making microcredit work better for the … economic options of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries within Third World economic and poverty conditions. Governance principles can … for poverty reduction and development. In view of the Philippine government’s limitations, economic and fiscal challenges …

poverty by modelling the impact of technological progress in the formal sectors of the economy on the urban informal wage in a … is less capital intensive (as capital flows to the informal sectors). This helps in understanding trends in urban poverty … given the strong association between the urban informal wage and degree of urban poverty. …

household income and assets in Kenya. We use a survey panel dataset, which allows us to control for unobserved heterogeneity … market is consistently associated with income in a positive way, the results for asset holdings as the measure of household …