The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU’s portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamics benefits from taking a life cycle perspective …

This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship between aggregate poverty and unemployment in Great … Britain. We derive a framework based on individuals' risks of unemployment and poverty, and how these vary over the economic … unemployment matters for poverty - with the macro picture - that there's no strong link. We then go on to identify which household …

It has long been accepted that lack of social participation in wider society is one aspect or one definition of poverty … important for those whose circumstances make them already more vulnerable to marginalisation, exclusion or poverty. For example …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

Amongst public policies for poverty reduction there has been a renewed thrust on enhancing rural livelihoods in recent … poverty and employment as key themes to an engagement on livelihoods as a frame that hitherto has largely remained a …

is measured by the estimation of poverty, inequality and pro-poorness. The paper suggests that the upcoming ―Smart cities …