income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence … social inequality than the traditional 'income only' approach. We find that cross-country variations in the dependence … parameter effectively accounts only for a small fraction of cross-country differences in a bivariate measure of inequality. The …

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 …

This paper examines multidimensional poverty for three waves of a cohort of Irish children ranging from ages 9 to 17 …. Poverty is measured over the dimensions of health, education and family resources and both unidimensional and multidimensional … multidimensional poverty is also analysed. The greatest degree of mobility is observed with respect to family resources. Mobility also …