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It has long been accepted that lack of social participation in wider society is one aspect or one definition of poverty … important for those whose circumstances make them already more vulnerable to marginalisation, exclusion or poverty. For example …, social interaction has been argued to be conducive to better outcomes for those with health problems; and there is an …
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-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression …Relying on a Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility function, we use panel data for Argentina to compute risk …
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Equivalisation of incomes for household size and composition is accepted practice when measuring poverty and inequality …
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I set out a new method for estimating true (Konüs) PPPs. Household consumption per head deflated by these PPPs answers the question: by how much must the average expenditure per head of poor country A be increased to enable the typical inhabitant of A to enjoy the same utility level as the...
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quantile regression models. After adjusting for physical and mental health factors and other confounders our findings indicate … their local area. In addition, these three variables are as strongly associated with SCRQoL as physical and mental health …
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between these two in the case of basic needs. For the analysis, individuals’ self-reported life satisfaction is used as a … results indicate that the commonly used measures of well-being – labour market situation, health, housing conditions and … social relations – significantly influence people’s satisfaction, ceteris paribus. Next, the stability of preferences is …
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satisfaction of aspirations or expectations, and if these are affected by the individual’s previous experience of deprivation or … scaling of satisfaction. The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the …. This suggests that income is a poor proxy for satisfaction but it does not provide firm evidence for the existence of …
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, Health, Housing, Income Maintenance and Social Security and Personal Social Services. The paper systematically explores who …
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This article looks at the way in which the role of the state has evolved within different aspects of welfare activity (broadly defined) in the United Kingdom since 1979 and forward to the possible impacts of the plans of the Coalition government that took office in 2010 for changing that role...
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estimates the impact of the 2009 global financial crisis on food expenditures, health care expenditures, and doctor visits in … matching technique. The analysis finds that household health and nutritional behavior indicators do not vary statistically … that crisis-affected poor families curtailed their out-of-pocket health expenditures during and after the crisis more than …
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