We derive the asymptotic sampling distribution of various estimators frequently used to order
distributions in terms of poverty, welfare, and inequality. This includes estimators of most of …

The publication of this book is in large part due to the role of Canada's Inter national
Development Research Center (IDRC) in encouraging policy-relevant research in the fields …

Kniha pojednává o jednom z klíčových témat sociologie, o sociální nerovnosti a chudobě.
Reflektuje změny ve vývoji společnosti i v konceptech jimiž sociologie popisuje stav …

This article seeks to evaluate how well the different welfare states of Europe perform in terms
of preventing recurrent and persistent income poverty and what household and individual …

The analysis presented in this article is based on two different concepts of poverty; the direct
consensual definition developed by Mack and Lansley (1985) and the indirect consensual …

In this paper, the equivalence scale elasticity will be estimated by using individual panel
data on income satisfaction from the German Socio‐Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) …

This title was first published in 2002: An investigation into the problem of identifying the poor
and determining the poverty line. The book focuses on one particular approach to the issue …

A New Understanding of Poverty Page 1 A New Understanding of Poverty Electronic copy
available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1750203 Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1750203 …

Poverty is a persistent problem which has presented political and moral challenges to all
societies at all times. The word itself, poverty, is a familiar one which everyone understands …

Low pay is conventionally measured in terms of the gross earnings of the individual, related
to benchmarks derived from the distribution of earnings such as half or two-thirds of the …