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Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …
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We examine the economic well-being of the elderly, using the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW). Compared to the conventional measures of income, the LIMEW is a comprehensive measure that incorporates broader definitions of income from wealth, government expenditures, and...
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The Great Recession had a tremendous impact on low-income Americans, in particular black and Latino Americans. The losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however, these losses are merely a continuation of trends that have...
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Antonopoulos and Ajit Zacharias and Research Scholar Thomas Masterson have constructed an alternative measure of poverty that, when …
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Gauging the severity of poverty in a given country requires a reasonably comprehensive measurement of whether … yet, in most cases, our official poverty metrics fail that test, often due to a crucial omission. In this policy brief … measure of poverty for Turkey and lay out the policy lessons that follow. Their research reveals that the number of people …
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provisioning of child care in Korea using the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Income Poverty (LIMTIP), an alternative measure … that factors in both time and income deficits in the assessment of poverty. Since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, lifetime … time and income poverty, and reassesses the overall level of poverty in Korea. While it reveals a much higher level of …
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