Mendola, Daria; Busetta, Annalisa; Milito, Anna Maria - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2009
Traditional measures of poverty persistence, such as 'poverty rate' (i.e., the number of years spent in poverty upon the total number of observations) or the 'persistent-risk-of-poverty rate', do not devote enough attention to the sequence of poverty spells. In particular, they are insufficient...