This article carries out a validation exercise of vulnerability measures as predictors of poverty at the aggregate and … deprivation indicators. The main findings indicate that while vulnerability measures are good predictors of poverty in the …

Most of the available comparative empirical evidence on levels and trends in income inequalities and poverty in OECD … picture of the impact of overall housing policies on inequality and poverty, as some countries use different policies to help … population and how they help to combat poverty. Finally, in a case study for Germany, we compare cash and in-kind social benefits …

This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurring economic crises that affect developing … countries and the incidence of income fluctuations on household welfare. While the increasing availability of household panel … still lack a unified framework. Echoing Atkinson (1987), this paper addresses the question of how poverty should be measured …

This paper documents the impact of Argentina's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special … focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple … rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty figures until 2001, providing consistent series of urban poverty …

-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression …

latter showed a further spread at the lower end of disposable income distribution. In the course of this development, the … poverty risk in western Germany fell slightly from 2009 to 2010, while it remained unchanged in the eastern part of the …

development, the poverty risk in western Germany fell slightly from 2009 to 2010, while it remained unchanged in the eastern part …

a halt in 2011. The most influential forces for this development in 2011 is the anew increase in inequality of capital … and labour income. Alongside, the relative poverty risk has reached a record high in 2009 with a rate of 15 percent. For … decreased since reunification in Germany. The chance to escape from relative poverty within a four years period has come down by …

-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) show that the risk of poverty did not rise further after a long period of upward movement. Income … mobility since German reunification. For example, the odds of exiting the risk of poverty within a period of four years has …