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Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2019

I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions....

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A Counting Approach for Measuring Multidimensional Deprivation

Aaberge, Rolf - 2012

This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking and quantifying the extent of deprivation exhibited by multidimensional distributions, where the multiple attributes in which an individual can be deprived are represented by dichotomized variables. To this end we first aggregate deprivation...

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Fighting Poverty : Assessing the Effect of Guaranteed Minimum Income Proposals in Québec

Clavet, Nicholas-James - 2013

This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket Measure (MBM). Workers with earnings at least equivalent to...

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Income Satisfaction and Deprivation in Spain

Labeaga Azcona, J. Maria - 2007

The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these being relative deprivation, and the second is to measure this relative deprivation, in both monetary and satisfaction terms. To that end, we use data from the eight waves of the...

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Growth with Equity : Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14

Benjamin, Dwayne - 2016

We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household income and estimates of income inequality over this high-growth period. We focus on two questions: How have benefits from growth been distributed; and do changes in the structure...

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Opportunity-Sensitive Poverty Measurement

Brunori, Paolo - 2014

We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity – one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also to differences in opportunities faced by people...

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Why is Poverty so High Among Afro-Brazilians? A Decomposition Analysis of the Racial Poverty Gap

Gradín, Carlos - 2021

This study aimed to identify the major factors underlying the large discrepancy in poverty levels between two Brazilian racial groups: whites and Afro-Brazilians. We performed an Oaxaca-Blinder-type decomposition for nonlinear regressions in order to quantify the extent to which differences in...

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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty

Hufe, Paul - 2018

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...

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A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen's Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare

Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2022

The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social … welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a … Gini coefficient increases. By integrating our approach to the construction of the Gini coefficient with Sen's social …

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Testing for Poverty Dominance : An Application to Canada

Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2021

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...

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