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

Jean-Yves Duclos () and Magda Mercader-Prats

Working Papers from Laval - Recherche en Politique Economique

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: POVERTY; HOUSEHOLD; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D30 D31 I30 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996

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