Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/27272 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 748
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of various poverty lines. Poverty in both periods follows some of the determinants commonly identified in the literature, including greater poverty among households with children and with less education. We also identify specific features of poverty in transition, including the relatively low importance of unemployment and the existence of poverty even among households with employment. Poverty determinants change over time in line with the experience of transition and restructuring.
Subjects: 
poverty
transition
survey
Ukraine
JEL: 
P20
I32
J20
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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