The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in … the population. It derives the implications of a between-type regressive transfer principle for poverty measures, for the … choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in …

This paper assesses the role of financial inclusion in moderating the incidence of entrepreneurship on energy poverty … unconditional positive incidence on energy poverty while the interactive incidence between entrepreneurship and financial inclusion … on energy poverty is negative. The corresponding financial inclusion policy thresholds that should be exceeded in order …

substitute for financial inclusion in energy poverty reduction in Ghana. Pooled data and two stage least squares techniques are … inclusion in energy poverty mitigation) is based on two main criteria: (i) a positive interactive effect relative to the …

In this study, we examined to what extent family policies differently affect poverty among single-parent households and …, family policies reduced poverty to a greater extent among single-parent households. Paid leave more effectively facilitated … the employment of single parents, thereby reducing their poverty more than among two-parent households. Family allowances …

poverty among individuals within the same family structure. Background: Family structure is a dominant explanation for racial … inequality in poverty. This overemphasis on an “individual-level” variable results in relatively less attention to the role of … structure intersect in the context of poverty. Method: We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study, the American Community …

Our study contributes to the discussion on the impact of imputed rent on poverty. In this paper, we address the issue … poverty among retirees, who are considered to be an economically vulnerable group. We employ the Luxembourg Income Study … imputed rental income contributes to poverty reduction. This also entails some policy implications in the long run, especially …

Despite its centrality to contemporary inequality, working poverty is often popularly discussed but rarely studied by … circa 2000. We demonstrate that working poverty does not simply mirror overall poverty and that there is greater cross …-national variation in working than overall poverty. We then examine four explanations for working poverty: demographic characteristics …

The objective of this paper is to distinguish between different types of working poverty, on the basis of the … mechanisms that produce it. Whereas the poverty literature identifies a myriad of risk factors and of categories of disadvantaged … workers, we focus on three immediate causes of working poverty, namely low wage rate, weak labour force attachment, and high …

earning dynamics and related issues such as the propensity of earners to fall into poverty or vulnerability to poverty because … other measures of interest, such as an individual's vulnerability to poverty. The results show that model parameters … the model, in this case pseudo-panel measures of vulnerability to poverty, reflect closely those based on actual panel …