terms of poverty reduction. It also shows that the patterns of income convergence across member states differ across …

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 interdepend-ent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and … income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a …

We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …

In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition … traditional poverty measurement to refer to income-independent equivalence scales is principally avoided. Moreover, the further … approach. This method differentiates between various social groups in the sense that for each group a separate poverty line is …

with respect to multidimensional theoretical measurement and empirical application in two ways: First, we propose extended …

poverty. However, since cohabitation without marriage is on the rise and since income pooling is less frequent among …, which implies that a wide range of analyses of income poverty, for instance, may be misleading. …