Arbeitspapier
Trends in subjective income poverty rates in the European Union
When developing anti-poverty policies, policymakers need accurate data on the prevalence of poverty. In this paper, we focus on subjective poverty, a concept which has been largely neglected in the literature, though it remains a conceptually appealing way to define poverty. The primary goal of this study is to re-examine the concept of subjective poverty measurement and to estimate trends in subjective income poverty rates in the European Union. Our estimations are based on a Minimum Income Question using data from a representative survey, EU-SILC. We find robust empirical evidence of decreasing trends in subjective poverty in 16 of 28 EU countries. We conjecture that trends in subjective poverty may reflect changes in societies which are not captured by official poverty indicators, and our results thus enrich the existing data on general poverty trends in the EU.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 892 [pre.]
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
General Welfare; Well-Being
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- Thema
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Subjective poverty
Minimum Income Question
intersection approach
EU-SILC
European Union
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Želinský, Tomás
Mysíková, Martina
Garner, Thesia I.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Global Labor Organization (GLO)
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Essen
- (wann)
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2021
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Želinský, Tomás
- Mysíková, Martina
- Garner, Thesia I.
- Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Entstanden
- 2021