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Smoothed Income Poverty in European Countries

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Birgit Kuchler
Jan Goebel

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The purpose of this paper is to obtain by combining two longitudinal perspectives a more detailed national picture of poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the _rst four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed consideration of the time dimension, poverty incidence, poverty gap and poverty intensity are measured. Overall, the ranking across countries and dimensions is relatively robust. Denmark and Portugal di_er from the rest of the countries in each dimension. Other exceptions include France and Ireland, where poverty intensity is considerably lower than in the other welfare regimes. The results in terms of the di_erent subgroups of poor individuals, namely transitory, intermittently and persistently poor, emphasize the importance of a more di_erentiated perspective on poverty, in particular concerning the relationship between social and demographic characteristics and individuals' long-term income situation.

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Paper provided by DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research in its series Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin with number 352.

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Date of creation: 2003
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Keywords: smoothed income; poverty; panel data; ECHP.;

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I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
N30 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Income, and Wealth - - - General, International, or Comparative
D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution

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  1. Leonor Vasconcelos Ferreira, 2005. "Social Protection and Chronic Poverty: Portugal and the Southern European Welfare Regime," FEP Working Papers 168, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto. [Downloadable!]
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