Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there … differing assessments of poverty and inequality under quite general conditions. German microdata will be used to demonstrate and …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on … ; poverty ; inequality ; welfare measurement ; vulnerability …

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …

Work requirements can make it easier to screen the poor from the non-poor.They can also affect future poverty by … changing the poors' incentive to invest in their income capacity. The novelty of our study is the focus on long term poverty … term poverty, and that the possibility of using work requirements weakens the incentives to exert effort to escape poverty …