Does lower unemployment reduce poverty?

Robert H. DeFina

Business Review, 2002, issue Q3, 34-41

Abstract: In \\"Does Lower Unemployment Reduce Poverty?\\" Bob DeFina considers the link between unemployment and poverty. How strong the link is depends critically on how we measure poverty. During the past two decades, researchers have identified numerous shortcomings in the government's official procedures for determining the extent of poverty. DeFina presents empirical evidence that improved measures of poverty are less strongly related to changes in unemployment than the headcount rate, the government's official measure.>

Keywords: Unemployment; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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