Add to ORKGAbstract: The relatively widespread use of poverty measures is analysed and their properties compared with other efinitions of welfare. Using a synthetic data set but one which shares some properties of the Irish income distribution of 1987, a number of changes in incomes are simulated and their impact upon a variety of poverty and welfare measures is analysed. It is argued that abbreviated welfare measures may summarise better what it is that concerns economists about poverty than do conventional poverty measures
Social welfare payments account for about 28 per cent of Exchequer current expenditure. How effectiv...
The measurement of poverty as ‘consistent’ poverty offers a solution to one of the primary problems ...
One of the major topics that attracted the attention of econometricians in recent years is measureme...
The relatively widespread use of poverty measures is analysed and their properties compared with oth...
When measuring poverty over time analysts must choose the value of the income elasticity of the pove...
Individual welfare can be assessed from two directions: either directly by looking at the standard o...
When measuring poverty over time analysts must choose the value of the income elasticity of the pove...
A class of poverty measures is identified, the members of which satisfy strong monotonicity and tran...
This paper reassesses the validity of a poverty measure combining relative income and non-monetary d...
Poverty measurement based on income or consumption fails to be consistent with welfare: a higher uti...
In this paper we seek to make use of the newly available Irish component of the European Union Stati...
In this paper we seek to put Irish poverty rates in a comparative European context. We do so in a co...
One way of measuring the deprivation or poverty of persons is to use money based measures: a person ...
This paper reassesses the validity of a poverty measure combining relative income and non-monetary d...
The basic problem in poverty measurement is how to weigh the income of different groups. This is a ...
Social welfare payments account for about 28 per cent of Exchequer current expenditure. How effectiv...
The measurement of poverty as ‘consistent’ poverty offers a solution to one of the primary problems ...
One of the major topics that attracted the attention of econometricians in recent years is measureme...
The relatively widespread use of poverty measures is analysed and their properties compared with oth...
When measuring poverty over time analysts must choose the value of the income elasticity of the pove...
Individual welfare can be assessed from two directions: either directly by looking at the standard o...
When measuring poverty over time analysts must choose the value of the income elasticity of the pove...
A class of poverty measures is identified, the members of which satisfy strong monotonicity and tran...
This paper reassesses the validity of a poverty measure combining relative income and non-monetary d...
Poverty measurement based on income or consumption fails to be consistent with welfare: a higher uti...
In this paper we seek to make use of the newly available Irish component of the European Union Stati...
In this paper we seek to put Irish poverty rates in a comparative European context. We do so in a co...
One way of measuring the deprivation or poverty of persons is to use money based measures: a person ...
This paper reassesses the validity of a poverty measure combining relative income and non-monetary d...
The basic problem in poverty measurement is how to weigh the income of different groups. This is a ...
Social welfare payments account for about 28 per cent of Exchequer current expenditure. How effectiv...
The measurement of poverty as ‘consistent’ poverty offers a solution to one of the primary problems ...
One of the major topics that attracted the attention of econometricians in recent years is measureme...