Reassessing Income and Deprivation Approaches to the Measurement of Poverty in the Republic of Ireland

Richard Layte, Brian Nolan and Christopher Whelan
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Richard Layte: The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin

The Economic and Social Review, 2001, vol. 32, issue 3, 239–261

Abstract: This paper reassesses the validity of a poverty measure combining relative income and non-monetary deprivation indicators, first developed and applied to Irish data for 1987, in the light of experience since then and current debates. A crucial issue is whether the measure has failed to capture fundamental changes in livings patterns and expectations. A range of analyses confirm that it continues to identify a set of households experiencing distinctive levels of generalised deprivation, economic strain, psychological distress and exposure to persistent income poverty.

Date: 2001
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