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On Various Ways of Measuring Unemployment, with Applications to Switzerland
Deutsch, Joseph; Fluckiger, Yves; Silber, Jaques Gabriel - 2010
unemployment rate, the average unemployment duration, and the inequality in the unemployment durations - to the differences between … the values of the four proposed indices, both within a given canton and within Switzerland as a whole. The paper concludes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225006
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Vulnerability, Unemployment and Poverty : A New Class of Measures, its Axiomatic Properties and Applications
Basu, Kaushik; Nolen, Patrick James - 2005
Measures of unemployment and poverty have tended to focus solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line. This approach has ignored the members of society that are vulnerable to becoming unemployed or falling into poverty. Current literature in this area has implicitly assumed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066229
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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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Characterizing unemployment duration data with stock sample measures
Garloff, Alfred; Werth, Stefan - 2013
In this paper, we describe the usefulness of stock sample measures for average unemployment durations, when the parameter of interest is the expected unemployment duration. If both job separations and job accessions follow a Poisson process which are constant over time, the stock sample measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537961
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On the dynamics of multidimensional chronic pover
Garcia-Diaz, Rocio; Prudencio, Daniel - 2015
Understanding chronic poverty and its evolution is complex given the amount of information involved. This paper proposes a new approach to analysing the evolution of chronic poverty in a multivariate setting using a Shapley decomposition of a multidimensional chronic poverty measure proposed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468558
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A Cluster Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Switzerland
Ferro-Luzzi, Giovanni - 2013
The measurement of poverty has often been criticized for relying solely on measures of financial deprivation. Poverty being a multidimensional state, related to health, schooling, living environment, psychological state as well as social tides, care should be taken to integrate these various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012711669
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On various ways of measuring unemployment, with applications to Switzerland
Deutsch, Joseph (contributor); Flückiger, Yves (contributor) - 2007
impact on the results obtained. -- FGT Poverty Index ; Inequality ; Sen Pverty Index ; Shapley Decomposition ; Switzerland … unemployment rate, the average unemployment duration, and the inequality in the unemployment durationsto the differences between … the values of the four proposed indices, both within a given canton and within Switzerland as a whole. The paper concludes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727038
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On various ways of measuring unemployment, with applications to Switzerland
Deutsch, Joseph; Flückiger, Yves; Silber, Jacques - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003558929
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Measuring Poverty at the State Level
Zedlewski, Sheila - 2010
This study implements the modern poverty measure for Minnesota using the American Community Survey (ACS) and simulates the potential effects of alternative safety net policies on poverty. The analysis uses the TRIM microsimulation model to correct for survey underreporting and to add information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144337
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Measuring living standards with income and consumption : evidence from the UK
Brewer, Mike; O'Dea, Cormac - 2012
one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009511662