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moment in time. PASS collects information on material deprivation with a list of 26 possessions and activities. The article … discusses the difficulties of measuring material deprivation and identifies several sources of measurement error and selection … bias. However, even when controlling for such errors and biases, regression models for different deprivation indices show a …
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Fuel poverty measurement consists of two independent parts: firstly, the definition of an adequate fuel poverty line, and secondly, techniques to measure fuel poverty. This paper reviews options for the definition of fuel poverty lines and techniques for fuel poverty measurement. Based on...
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In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition approach. This method differentiates between various social groups in the sense that for each group a separate poverty line is determined. E. g., household size might be a criterion...
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Fuel poverty measurement consists of two independent parts: firstly, the definition of an adequate fuel poverty line, and secondly, techniques to measure fuel poverty. This paper reviews options for the definition of fuel poverty lines and techniques for fuel poverty measurement. Based on...
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Fuel poverty may become an increasingly severe problem in developed countries in cases when real prices for fossil fuels increase at high rates or when real energy prices increase due to policies for greenhouse gas abatement. Fuel poverty measurement consists of two largely independent parts,...
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Fuel poverty measurement consists of two independent parts: firstly, the definition of an adequate fuel poverty line, and secondly, techniques to measure fuel poverty. This paper reviews options for the definition of fuel poverty lines and techniques for fuel poverty measurement. Based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896238
This paper proposes a measure for deprivation in social participation, an important but so far neglected dimension of … approach. Essentially, the paper argues that deprivation in social participation can be convincingly established by drawing on … considerations, axiomatic research on poverty and deprivation, and previous empirical research on social exclusion and subjective …
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deprivation have statistically-significant effects on reported concerns about crime, while relative satisfaction plays no role. At …
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analysis of the level of deprivation and pay less attention to income poverty and inequality. Because we consider deprivation … deprivation levels the results are different and it appears that the Social-Democratic welfare state is good in preventing income … poverty but performs less well in equalising levels of deprivation. The results also show that the immature Southern welfare …
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Different family types may have a fixed flow of consumption costs, related to subsistence needs. We use a survey method in order to identify and estimate such a fixed component of spending for different families. Our method involves making direct questions about the linkup between aggregate...
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