.S. government poverty statistics to create a new time series of Sen indices of poverty. The effects of growth and other determinants … of aggregate poverty are investigated over the period 1961-1996. The results indicate that economic growth affects the … Sen index and official poverty headcounts in essentially the same manner across time. The long economic expansion …

Äquivalenzskalen ; Deutschland ; USA ; Einkommensverteilung ; Ungleichheit ; Armut … inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U … of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …

On the international stage, poverty is increasingly understood multi-dimensionally as a deprivation of wellbeing in … people who are not counted as poor under the official or supplemental measures of income poverty experience multidimensional … poverty. Yet there is no monitoring of multidimensional poverty. This paper examines trends in multidimensional poverty in the …

of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I …Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …