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Amartya Sen's Capability Approach : Theoretical Insights and Empirical Applications
Kuklys, Wiebke (contributor) - 2005
for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520489
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Measuring living standards with income and consumption : evidence from the UK
Brewer, Mike; O'Dea, Cormac - 2012
This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents evidence that income is likely to be under-recorded for households with low resources. It describes the different impressions one gets about trends in the level and inequality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009567014
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Poverty in the COVID-19 era : real-time data analysis on five European countries
Menta, Giorgia - In: Poverty, inequality and shocks, (pp. 209-247). 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013188911
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Nassau William Senior and the poor laws : why workhouses improved the industriousness of the poor
Fujimura, Satoshi - In: History of economics review : HER 70 (2018) 1, pp. 49-59
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"Punishment is all the charity that the law affordeth them" : penal transportation, vagrancy, and the charitable impulse in the British Atlantic, c.1600-1750
Hitchcock, David - In: New global studies 12 (2018) 2, pp. 195-215
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916667
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The poverty experience of lone mothers and their children
Provencher, Ashley; Carlton, Audrey - In: Applied economics letters 25 (2018) 6, pp. 401-404
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Becoming unemployed and poor in Great Britain
Plum, Alexander - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 18, pp. 1289-1293
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Tax and benefit reforms to support employment and inclusiveness and address poverty in Italy
Bulman, Tim; Pacifico, Daniele; Pisu, Mauro; … - 2019
that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and …-wage earners would make inroads into poverty and inequality while encouraging formal work. This paper accompanies and extends the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202861
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Life outside : a narrative ethnographic inquiry into the determinants of homelessness
Graffy, Peter; McKinnon, Sara L.; Lee, Garrett; … - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 23 (2019) 3, pp. 202-228
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180265
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"Fence-ing lessons" : child junkers and the commodification of scrap in the long nineteenth century
Woloson, Wendy A. - In: Business history 61 (2019) 1, pp. 38-72
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