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| The relationship between EU indicators of persistent and current poverty | | Author(s) | Stephen P Jenkins, Philippe Van Kerm |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2013 |
| Pages | 35 pp (CASEpaper 169) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case |
| Keywords | Poverty ; European Union ; Indicators ; Europe. |
| Annotation | The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the European Union's portfolio of primary indicators of social inclusion. Drawing on empirical analysis of the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and the European Community Household Panel survey (ECHP) data, the authors show that there is a near-linear relationship between these two indicators across EU countries. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, they explain how the near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty information. In the light of the results, they discuss whether the EU's persistent poverty measure and the design of EU-SILC longitudinal data collection require modification. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130625005 B |
| Classmark | W6: WFC: 3RI: 74 |
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