multidimensional approaches to poverty and social exclusion, increasing concerns about reliance on nationally based income poverty … welfare regimes. The multidimensional profile of the economically vulnerable sharply differentiates them from the remainder of …. Employing the EU-SILC data set, we identify for each of a set of welfare regimes a group of economically vulnerable individuals …

extent to which the measures currently employed as national indicators of poverty and social exclusion succeed in capturing … ability increasing sharply as one moves from 'at risk of poverty' to consistent poverty and finally economic vulnerability …

In this paper, using the EU-SILC 2006 data-set, we seek to explore the extent to which a consideration of welfare … regime and socio-economic differences in poverty levels and patterns and variation in the consequences of poverty for … economic stress can assist us in making informed choices between alternative poverty indicators. Poverty in the EU is normally …

In this paper we seek to put Irish poverty rates in a comparative European context. We do so in a context whereby the … EU ‘at risk of poverty’ indicator. Our comparative analysis reports findings for both overall levels of poverty and … variation by household reference person characteristics for this indicator and a consistent poverty measure for Ireland, the UK …

Living Conditions (EU-SILC) in order to develop a measure of consistent poverty that overcomes some of the difficulties … associated with the original indicators employed as targets in the Irish National Anti-Poverty Strategy. Our analysis leads us to … accumulated evidence supports the view that a revised consistent poverty measure that combines a threshold of two or more economic …

, have focused unduly on relative income poverty measures. Here, employing a multidimensional perspective that encompasses …

In this paper we consider the consequences for measurement of material deprivation, consistent poverty and economic … demonstrate that they allow us to identify clusters of individuals sharply differentiated in terms of their multidimensional … poverty ; material deprivation ; multidimensionality ; consistent poverty ; economic strain ; economic stress …