Are Married Women More Deprived than Their Husbands?

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Are Married Women More Deprived than Their Husbands?

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Sara Cantillon (Department of the Taoiseach, Ireland)
Brian Nolan (Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI))

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Brian Thomas Nolan

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Conventional methods of analysis of poverty assume resources are shared so that each individual in a household/family has the same standard of living. This paper measures differences between spouses in a large sample in indicators of deprivation of the type used in recent studies of poverty at household level. The quite limited overall imbalance in measured deprivation in favour of husbands suggests that applying such indicators to individuals will not reveal a substantial reservoir of hidden poverty among wives in non-poor households, nor much greater deprivation among women than men in poor households. This points to the need to develop more sensitive indicators of deprivation designed to measure individual living standards and poverty status, which can fit the framework of traditional poverty research using large samples. It also highlights the need for clarification of the underlying poverty concept.

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Paper provided by Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in its series Papers with number WP073.

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Date of creation: Feb 1996
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Brian Nolan & Gerard Hughes, 1997. "Low Pay, the Earnings Distribution and Poverty in Ireland, 1987-1994: Paper for LOWER Conference on Problems of Low-Wage Employment 31 January - 1 February, Bordeaux," Papers WP084, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). [Downloadable!]
Brian Nolan & Bertrand Maitre, 1999. "The Distribution of Income and Relative Income Poverty in the European Community Household Panel," Papers WP107, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). [Downloadable!]
Brian Nolan & Bertrand Maitre, 2000. "A Comparative Perspective on Trends in Income Inequality in Ireland," The Economic and Social Review, Economic and Social Studies, vol. 31(4), pages 329-350. [Downloadable!]

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