In this paper we examine the concept of "vulnerability" (Townsend 1994) within the context of income mobility of the … reveal specific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are most susceptible to be vulnerable to shocks …

We focus on the statics and dynamics of poverty in Spain using data from the first eight waves of the European … pattern of poverty changes noted by other authors for the early nineteen-nineties. After this period poverty reduces slightly … much mobility, but most of it short-range. …

The intra-distributional mobility of German income dynamics is analysed using GSOEP. Transition probabilities are found …-stayer model is proposed. In order to explain the observed mobility profiles, we concentrate on one important income class - the … poor - instead of the entire transition matrix. Various poverty duration models accommodating unobserved population …

The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU’s portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamics benefits from taking a life cycle perspective …

This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship between aggregate poverty and unemployment in Great … Britain. We derive a framework based on individuals' risks of unemployment and poverty, and how these vary over the economic … unemployment matters for poverty - with the macro picture - that there's no strong link. We then go on to identify which household …

evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …

inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys …

well-known inequality indices. The same cannot be said, in respect of poverty indices, for the second-order stochastic …The second-order stochastic dominance criterion for inequality analysis introduced by Atkinson (1970) covers nearly all … dominance criterion for poverty analysis introduced by Atkinson (1987). Indeed, two of the best known poverty indices, the head …