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CONCEPTS OF POVERTY AND THE POVERTY LINE. ESRI Working Paper No. 2, June 1987

Callan, Tim and Nolan, Brian (1987) CONCEPTS OF POVERTY AND THE POVERTY LINE. ESRI Working Paper No. 2, June 1987. [Working Paper]

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    Abstract

    This second working paper of the project on income distribution, poverty and usage of state services focuses on the various concepts of poverty and derived poverty lines which have been developed and applied in the literature. The first working paper surveyed previous studies which examined the extent and nature of poverty in Ireland. It was clear from that survey that a quite limited conceptual approach was common to almost all these studies, in that they used poverty lines based on official social security payment rates. The objective of the present paper is to describe and, to some extent, to assess various other conceptual approaches to the measurement of poverty and the derivation of a poverty line. A number of these approaches will be applied to the data currently being gathered on a large sample of Irish households.

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    Item Type: Working Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: Countries > Ireland
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > economic and financial affairs > poverty
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin > ESRI Working Papers
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 11 Sep 2019 16:18
    Number of Pages: 38
    Last Modified: 11 Sep 2019 16:18
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/99019

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