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-oriented analysis. This paper examines empirical strategies to measure poverty and inequality in multiple domains, concentrating on two …
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The aim of this paper is to dynamically analyse the three indicators of poverty and social exclusion covered by the EU …2020 poverty target, while focusing on state dependence and feedback effects. We are interested in learning to what extent … being at risk of poverty, severe material deprivation or low work intensity in one year is related to being in the same …
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In European poverty research, poverty is usually measured with a poverty line defined as a percentage of the national … differences. Therefore, in this paper we document recent trends in national and EU-wide income poverty dynamics. We analyse to … what extent household incomes have converged in the EU and how this has impacted upon poverty dynamics using both national …
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contributed to a number of positive outcomes, such as low poverty and high employment. However, our examination of more recent …
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countries. How effective are these programs at reducing poverty and increasing employment? The US and UK experience suggests … decreasing relative poverty rates. Quite a few other affluent nations have done as well as or better than the UK and the US in …
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living in households with low, or very low, work intensity which is part of the Europe 2020 target set to reduce poverty and …
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Poverty indicators often disagree about whether a person is poor or not. Yet, when it comes to assessing whether a … program is successful in reaching the poor the dominant practice is to use an income poverty indicator. This paper …
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This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …
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exclusion and poverty. The aim of this paper is to present and analyze the main measures of over-indebtedness used in the … of over-indebtedness are subsequently compared with the measures of poverty in order to disentangle the relationship …
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The paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of how employment change relates to changes in poverty in the … employment was accompanied by a relatively sizeable change in poverty rates as well. According to our preferred regression model … estimates, poverty to employment elasticity has been around 25 percent on average in the EU in the period between 2005 and 2012 …
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