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A comparison of poverty and welfare measures
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Date Issued
1997-03
Date Available
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Abstract
The relatively widespread use of poverty measures is analysed and their properties compared with other definitions 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.
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Papers
WP97/10
Copyright (Published Version)
UCD Centre for Economic Research 1997
Classification
D63
I32
Subject – LCSH
Social indicators--Ireland
Poverty--Ireland
Equality--Ireland
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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