The economic crisis of 2008/9 was felt more acutely in Ireland relative to elsewhere and culminated in the … international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth …

with GDP per capita: poverty accounts for a much greater share of the welfare costs in poorer countries. Finally, the …This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its …

poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … of scale of living in a couple, and a sharing rule that governs the intra-household allocation of resources. The model is … scale and a wife's share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the …

. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …

Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet …, previous studies have mixed results and despite the availability of cross-sectional data, the absence of household panel survey … data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. We address these challenges by proposing a novel typology of FHHs and analyze …

long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal …) longitudinal poverty. The results reveal considerable differences across EU countries regarding both the level and the structure of … the population at high risk of chronic material deprivation and longitudinal poverty. Finally, each country's population …

In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to household impoverishmentʺ. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy's Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …

methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … transportation costs can result in up to a 40% reduction in the measured poverty rate among remote-working households. … remote work during the pandemic. We then propose methods to impute transportation cost equivalents for household expenditure …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the …. We provide an illustration for France and Ireland and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order …. -- Tax-benefit policy ; inequality ; poverty ; decomposition ; microsimulation …

places substantial firing costs on firms and has a major impact on the decisions of firms to hire disabled workers …