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Chronic material deprivation and long-term poverty in Europe in the pre-crisis period
Papadopoulos, Fotis; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2016
The paper examines the degree of overlap between people who experience chronic material deprivation and those who face long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal information of the EU-SILC. In order to approximate chronic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452698
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Chronic Material Deprivation and Long‐Term Poverty in Europe in the Pre‐Crisis Period
Papadopoulos, Fotis - 2016
The paper examines the degree of overlap between people who experience chronic material deprivation and those who face long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal information of the EU-SILC. In order to approximate chronic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997452
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Income inequality, cohesiveness and commonality in the Euro area : a semi-parametric boundary-free analysis
Anderson, Gordon; Pittau, Maria Grazia; Zelli, Roberto; … - In: Econometrics : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-20
societal income inequality, poverty, polarization and societal segmentation are examined. What emerges for the Eurozone as an … behaviour. However, in the face of increasing overall Eurozone inequality, constituent nations were becoming increasingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011823306
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European schemes of social assistance : an empirical analysis of set-ups and distributive impacts
Hölsch, Katja; Kraus, Margit - 2002
This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify the systems according to regulatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447576
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Relative income distribution in six European countries : market and disposable income
Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015
The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010471715
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Measuring income polarization for twenty European countries, 2004-13 : a Shapley growth-redistribution decomposition
Wang, Jinxian; Caminada, Koen; Wang, Chen - In: Eastern European economics 55 (2017) 6, pp. 477-499
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005738
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Multidimensional welfare comparisons of EU member states before, during, and after the financial crisis : a dominance approach
Hussain, M. Azhar; Siersbæk, Nikolaj; Østerdal, Lars Peter - 2018
How did the financial crisis affect population welfare in EU member states in key dimensions such as income, health, and education? We seek to answer this question by way of welfare comparisons between countries and within countries over time, using EU-SILC data. Our study is novel in using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023707
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Poverty in the regions of the European Union : measurement with a composite indicator
Węziak-Białowolska, Dorota - In: Contemporary economics 9 (2015) 2, pp. 113-154
We measure area-specific human poverty in the European Union (EU) at the second level of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2). We construct a regional human poverty index (RHPI), which comprises four dimensions: social exclusion, knowledge, a decent standard of living,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011306025
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Why is it so hard to reach the EU's "poverty" target?
Darvas, Zsolt M. - 2017
cointegration evidence, that the 'at risk of poverty' indicator essentially measures income inequality, not poverty. Our … deprivation and low work intensity, the Gini coefficient of income inequality would have to fall by 3.5 points in each EU country … inequality. There are good reasons to aim for lower income inequality, but a political agreement would be needed to set an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011686375
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Perspectives on poverty in Europe
Jenkins, Stephen - 2018
I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955500