Income Poverty and Multidimensional Deprivation: Lessons from Cross-Regional Analysis

Luis Ayala (), Antonio Jurado and Pérez-Mayo, Jesús
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Antonio Jurado: Universidad de Extremadura
Pérez-Mayo, Jesús: Universidad de Extremadura
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No 106, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: The study of multidimensional deprivation has become one of the most relevant lines of research in the analysis of low-income households. The search for significant relationships between multidimensional deprivation and income poverty has been a central issue and most empirical studies have found a very weak link. This paper aims at examining the possibility of an aggregation bias in national studies, which could conceal the diversity of experiences and patterns to be found in the different regions. Latent class models are used to define deprivation indices and the Spanish Survey on Income and Living Conditions is used. The results seem to show that the absence of significant relationships between both phenomena also appears when the sample of household is disaggregated regionally. Nonetheless, the decomposition of these two phenomena’s determinants reveals some common explanatory factors.

Keywords: poverty; multidimensional deprivation; regional analysis; EUSILC. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009
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