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This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2007 period. It finds that in 2007 Norway had the highest level of economic...
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, single-parent poverty, and old-age poverty – are discussed. The second objective is to consider the adequacy of our framework …
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about 4 percentage points in the after-tax poverty rate, which would reach 13.2 per cent in 2010. …
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This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2008 period. It finds that the IEWB advanced at a 1.20 per cent average...
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and wealth of Canadians over time, including trends in poverty. Part three discusses trends in income fluctuations or … and 2008. Indeed, Canadians experienced a widening of income and wealth inequalities. There have been poverty reductions …
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We re-examine some of the standard axioms used in the literature on Poverty Measurement. Using a sample of 486 students … from Australia, Israel and the USA we investigate the extent to which perceptions of poverty correspond to the axioms. …
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The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into...
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poverty indices to data contamination using the concept of the influence function. We show that poverty and inequality indices … have fundamentally different robustness properties, and demonstrate that an imporrtant commonly used subclass of poverty … measures will be robust under data conta m ination. We investigate both the case where the poverty line is exogenenously fixed …
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Averaging methods are routinely used in order to limit biases resulting from the mismeasurement of permanent incomes. The Solon/Zimmerman estimator regresses a single-year measurement of the child's resources on a T-period average of the parents' income while the Behrman/Taubman estimator...
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evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …
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