Proponents of the income-based approach to poverty rarely contest the fact that poverty is actually a multidimensional … one dimension: income. Upcoming multidimensional poverty measures have challenged this established assumption, claiming … that the correlation between the various dimensions of poverty is in fact not strong enough for income to serve as a proxy …

poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the first four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community … Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed consideration of the time dimension, poverty incidence, poverty gap and … poverty intensity are measured. Overall, the ranking across countries and dimensions is relatively robust. Denmark and …

institutional regulations of welfare states with the actual income situation of families. To achieve this, a research design was …Welfare states and policies have changed greatly over the past decades, mostly characterized by retrenchments in terms … of policy variation and household income changes on the micro-level, the main research question of the dissertation is to …