This paper examines the determinants of poverty intensity in US states and Canadian provinces in 1994 and 1997 …. Although most Canadian provinces had lower poverty than US states in 1994, by 1997 Canadian distinctiveness had greatly … poverty intensity of trade exposure, unemployment, social assistance generosity and unemployment insurance benefits. …

The measurement of poverty intensity we use was initially advocated by Sen (1976), and modified recently by Shorrocks … Shorrocls, we refer henceforth to the SSR index. Section 2 of this article begins by discussing the SST index of poverty … intensity and its decomposition into the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ratio among the poor and the overall Gini index …

This paper proposes an alternative formulation for the Sen-Shorrocks index of poverty intensity for survey data with … sampling weights, and decomposes the Sen-Shorrocks index into the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ration among the poor …, and the overall Gini index of poverty gap ratios. This decomposition allows the percentage change in poverty intensity to …

This paper proposes a new and unified framework for the Sen and Sen-Shorrocks-Thon indices of poverty intensity, which …