This study provides empirical evidence on recent trends in poverty among working families based on the headcount rate … and a broader alternative that incorporates the headcount rate, the depth of poverty, and income inequality among the poor … working poverty for the sample period, while the alternative index showed no statistically significant change. The same result …

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … important for poverty analysis. An empirical illustration based on deprivation data from four Central American countries …

economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

This paper introduces a theory-based equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers, which justifies comparison of …, education and childcare expenditure on estimates of income inequality and poverty for 24 European countries. The empirical … results show significant effects of public in-kind transfers on the level of income inequality and poverty for all countries …