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Household Needs and Poverty: With Application to Spain and the UK

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Duclos, J.Y.
Mercader-Prats, M.

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We examine the sensitivity of poverty comparisons across countries with dissimilar household needs when equivalence scale parameters are varied. We use a sample of Spanish and British households, using both absolute and relative poverty lines.

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Paper provided by Laval - Recherche en Politique Economique in its series Papers with number 9614.

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Date of creation: 1996
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Keywords: POVERTY; HOUSEHOLD; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM;

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D30 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - General
D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General
I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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