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Equity-regarding poverty measures : differences in needs and the role of equivalence scales
Ebert, Udo - 2008 - rev.
The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in … the population. It derives the implications of a between-type regressive transfer principle for poverty measures, for the … choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881024
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Growing up in North America : child well-being in Canada, the United States, and México
Children in North America Project - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335861
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Rewealthization in 21st century Western countries : the defining trend of the socioeconomic squeeze of the middle class
Chauvel, Louis; Bar Haim, Eyal; Hartung, Anne; Murphy, Emily - 2021
Over the last three decades, the wealth-to-income ratio (WIR) in many Western countries, particularly in Europe and North America, increased by a factor of two. This represents a defining empirical trend: a rewealthization (from the French repatrimonialisation) – or the comeback of (inherited)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012887897
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The economic well-being of Canadian children
Burton, Peter S.; Phipps, Shelley A. - 2017
). Third, we illustrate changes/differences in median incomes, in income distributions and in child poverty both before and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011687816
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Differences across place and time in household expenditure patterns : implications for the estimation of equivalence scales
Daley, Angela; Garner, Thesia Isedora; Phipps, Shelley A.; … - 2020
Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For … those implied by the ‘square root of household size’ equivalence scale. Our results have important implications when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165604
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Inequality in the family : the institutional aspects of wives' earning dependency
Stier, Haya (contributor); Mandel, Hadas (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002423343
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Welfare state expenditures and the redistribution of well-being : children, elders, and others in comparative perspective
Garfinkel, Irwin (contributor); Rainwater, Lee (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002424670
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Prosperity and the welfare state : the effect of benefit generosity and wage coordination on absolute poverty and prosperity in cross-national perspective
Nell, Guinevere Liberty (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335862
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Prosperity and the welfare state : the effect of benefit generosity and wage coordination on absolute poverty and prosperity in cross-national perspective
Nell, Guinevere Liberty - 2005
The goal of the welfare state is the redistribution of income in order to reduce poverty and reduce inequality. Income … inequality and relative poverty are often cited as major policy concerns, and are tracked by economists. Economists and policy … makers also value measures of absolute poverty as it more closely tracks the actual well being of the poor. Some studies have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259922
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Government programs and social outcomes : the United States in comparative perspective
Smeeding, Timothy M. (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003362235