Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable is measured on a metric scale. However, estimation is not possible, using standard formulas, when the income …

This article concerns the need to define poverty in a way to be relevant to the context it is to refer, to be … socioeconomic situations and analyses the two approaches to poverty - basic needs and income (or poverty line) - in what concerns … their advantages and shortcomings. It highlights how perverse the generalization of the use of the poverty line approach can …

The availability of quantity information along with expenditure information in some household surveys allows the … estimation of price reactions on the basis of unit values. We compare two specifications that have been proposed in this context …

these features to develop a method for estimation of price reactions using unit value data which exploits the implicit links … quality choice in a way which is consistent with demand theory. The method is applied to Czech data. …

unions can demand different hours from different households, directly taking household heterogeneity into account. In this … households work the same amount but prohibits unions from requiring any household to work more than it would like to. This …

We develop a method for estimation of price reactions using unit value data which exploits the implicit links between … determination in a way which is consistent with demand theory, unlike methods hitherto prominent in the literature. The method is …