's and overall welfare levels, at a plausible degree of economies of scale (i. e., Buhmann et al.'s θ > 0.65) the poverty …In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition … approach. This method differentiates between various social groups in the sense that for each group a separate poverty line is …

Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty … with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling for individual poverty status and poverty intensity. The negative … relationship between aggregate poverty and SWB is more salient in the upper segments of the income distribution and is robust to …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …

life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational …This publication concentrates on the complex interplay between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction. Main areas of … from 1998-2009 is examined. This study has two main goals: (1) To contribute to the interconnection between poverty, wealth …

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the … last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and … of multidimensional poverty. In addition to various poverty gap measures including the multidimensional well-being gap …

Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income … satisfaction to construct an evidence-based poverty line. The poverty line is identified by using its assumed unique property to …-Economic Panel yields a temporally stable poverty line similar to the definition provided by the Statistical Office of the European …

This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … multidimensional poverty indices … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty …

We propose a social welfare function to evaluate a profile of income streams and compare the welfare gain of the actual … and sufficient conditions for the welfare gain to be positive, and show how this welfare gain can be decomposed in a pure … welfare gain is the equalization of time averaged income, induced by reranking. After subtracting the cost of mobility due to …