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Bottom Incomes and the Measurement of Poverty: A Brief Assessment of the Literature

Ceriani, Lidia; Hlasny, Vladimir; Verme, Paolo - 2021

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

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List of well-being indicators

Kettner, Claudia; Köppl, Angela; Stagl, Sigrid - 2012

This milestone presents a pool of available indicators and indicator systems which go beyond the narrow concepts of national economic accounts as well as a structuring of the indicators and indices according to central areas of well-being. The milestone builds the basis for Task 202.2, where a...

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Multidimensional economic well-being. Is it measurable? The case of Lombardy

Brugnoli, Alberto; Folloni, Giuseppe; Modena, Francesca - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2009

The definition and measurement of economic well-being is receiving growing attention, both in academic research and policy agenda, as a key issue to provide a solid basis for decision-making at all levels, both national and local. There is general agreement among economists and policy-makers...

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Comparing Multidimensional Indices of Inequality: methods and application

Lugo, Maria Ana - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2005

The paper provides an examination into the measures of multidimensional inequality proposed in the past few years, their properties and majorization criteria. It offers a generalisation of Bourguignon index proposed so that it includes Tsui measures (1999) while preserving the virtues of...

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Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-Being with an Illustration for Catalonia

Ramos, Xavi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...

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Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008

The great promise of surveys in which people report their own level of life satisfaction is that such surveys might provide a straightforward and easily collected measure of individual or national well-being that aggregates over the various components of well-being, such as economic status,...

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Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008

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Relative deprivation and individual well-being

Chen, Xi - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) April, pp. 1-10

poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …

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Why cash transfer programs can both stimulate and slow down job finding

Mesén Vargas, Juliana; Van der Linden, Bruno - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 8 (2019) 5, pp. 1-27

This article analyzes the behavioral effects of cash transfer programs when jobless people need to have access to a minimum consumption level. Our model reconciles recent evidence about negligible or favorable effects of cash transfers on job-finding rates and the more standard view of negative...

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Poverty in the Russian Federation

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2001

This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of … poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household … panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective approach, where the level of the poverty line is derived using the …

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