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Using efficiency analysis to measure individual well-being with an illustration for Catalonia

Ramos, Xavi - 2005

This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...

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Indicators of inequality and poverty

Subramanian, S. - 2004

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of income and, additionally, deals with measures of disparity and deprivation in the more expanded domain of capabilities and functionings. In addition to an introductory and a...

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Multidimensional poverty in Nigeria : first order dominance approach

Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Olaniyan, Olanrewaju; … - 2014

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. (2012). It examines five dimensions of deprivation: education, water, sanitation, shelter, and energy-using comparable datasets, the Nigeria Demographic...

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Getting warmer : fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being

Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021

This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively measured biomarker data. Over and above the conventional...

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Getting warmer: fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being

Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021

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A Behaviouristic Approach for Measuring Poverty: The Decomposition Approach ; Empirical Illustrations for Germany 1995-2009

Faik, Jürgen - 2011

In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition …'s mean welfare level, does not exist, on principle, in the decomposition approach. Present author's own calculations reveal … levels of the decomposition approach can be interpreted as upper limits for the "true" level of poverty, and, conversely, the …

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Zeit, Wohlstand und Zufriedenheit - multidimensionale Polarisierung von Zeit und Einkommen: Selbständige und abhängig Beschäftigte

Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2016

In dieser Studie werden Zeit, Wohlstand und Zufriedenheit mit einem interdependenten multidimensionalen (IMD) Polarisierungsansatz von Zeit und Einkommen und der Entwicklung über 20 Jahre in Deutschland analysiert. Mit dem neuen Ansatz zur multidimensionalen Polarisierungsintensität (2DGAP)...

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Anstieg der Altersarmut? Anmerkungen zu einem Gutachten des wissenschaftlichen Beirats beim Bundeswirtschaftsministerium

Faik, Jürgen; Köhler-Rama, Tim - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 3, pp. 159-163

Das Problem der Altersarmut ist in Deutschland in jüngster Zeit in den sozialpolitischen Fokus gerückt. In starkem Kontrast zu bislang vorliegenden empirischen Arbeiten behauptet ein aktuell veröffentlichtes Gutachten des wissenschaftlichen Beirats beim Bundeswirtschaftsministerium, dass sich...

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A multilevel approach to explain child mortality and undernutrition in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

Harttgen, Kenneth; Misselhorn, Mark - 2006

While undernutrition among children is very pervasive both in Sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia, child mortality is rather low in South Asia. In contrast to that Sub-Saharan African countries su er by far the worst from high rates of child mortality. This di erent pattern of child mortality and...

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Income distribution dynamics and pro-poor growth in the world from 1970 to 2003

Holzmann, Hajo; Vollmer, Sebastian; Weisbrod, Julian - 2007

growth rates. Using the regional decomposition we find that while in 1970 more than half of the worlds extreme poor and poor …

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