This paper provides a method to make robust multidimensional poverty comparisons when one or more of the dimensions of … well-being or deprivation is discrete. Sampling distributions for the statistics used in these poverty comparisons are … information than do univariate poverty comparisons …

This paper provides a method to make robust multidimensional poverty comparisons when one or more of the dimensions of … well-being or deprivation is discrete. Sampling distributions for the statistics used in these poverty comparisons are … information than do univariate poverty comparisons …

based on Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves …We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing marginal reforms of transfer programs. The methods are … can be decomposed simply as sums of targeting dominance curves and allocation dominance ones, and can serve to verify …

Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves can be …We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing transfer program reforms. The methods are based on … decomposed simply as sums of targeting dominance curves and allocation dominance ones, and can serve to verify whether the …

immigration. This development is reflected in private household income, which has increased by 12 percent over the same period …

remained high. These are the findings of the present study based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. The risk-of-poverty … rate was 16.8 percent in 2015, in comparison to around 11 percent in the mid-1990s. The risk-of-poverty rate among the … migration background - those who were born in a foreign country and then migrated to Germany. The increase in the risk-of-poverty …

stagnated or even decreased in the interim periods. The proportion of people at risk of poverty has recently become greater … again. Gainful employment still provides the most effective protection against income poverty, but more and more employed … childless coupled households - this could also reduce the number of children at risk of poverty. …