Reference budgets could play an important role in the work of measuring poverty and assessing income adequacy, and in …

This paper considers the measurement of poverty in the European Union (EU). Starting from a definition of poverty that …-Greer-Thorbecke class of poverty measures. Three key issues need to be addressed in the measurement of poverty. First, one has to determine … persons are considered to be poor. Third, it is necessary to outline an aggregation procedure to attain a poverty figure for …

Most of the available comparative empirical evidence on levels and trends in income inequalities and poverty in OECD … picture of the impact of overall housing policies on inequality and poverty, as some countries use different policies to help … population and how they help to combat poverty. Finally, in a case study for Germany, we compare cash and in-kind social benefits …

The aim of this paper is to dynamically analyse the three indicators of poverty and social exclusion covered by the EU …2020 poverty target, while focusing on state dependence and feedback effects. We are interested in learning to what extent … being at risk of poverty, severe material deprivation or low work intensity in one year is related to being in the same …

contributed to a number of positive outcomes, such as low poverty and high employment. However, our examination of more recent … inequalities and social divisions. Still, a more enlightened development path is open but requires serious recasting of the social …

countries. How effective are these programs at reducing poverty and increasing employment? The US and UK experience suggests … decreasing relative poverty rates. Quite a few other affluent nations have done as well as or better than the UK and the US in …

Poverty indicators often disagree about whether a person is poor or not. Yet, when it comes to assessing whether a … program is successful in reaching the poor the dominant practice is to use an income poverty indicator. This paper … investigates whether the choice of welfare indicator influences the pro-poorness assessment of an intervention. Using the official …

The paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of how employment change relates to changes in poverty in the … employment was accompanied by a relatively sizeable change in poverty rates as well. According to our preferred regression model … estimates, poverty to employment elasticity has been around 25 percent on average in the EU in the period between 2005 and 2012 …

In European poverty research, poverty is usually measured with a poverty line defined as a percentage of the national … differences. Therefore, in this paper we document recent trends in national and EU-wide income poverty dynamics. We analyse to … what extent household incomes have converged in the EU and how this has impacted upon poverty dynamics using both national …

security systems (poverty alleviation, securing living standards and prevention) and that, as a consequence, the poverty … work-rich households. We find that in many countries the relative decline in poverty reduction has primarily affected work … the poverty alleviation function of social protection has come under pressure as a consequence of a shift of attention …