Multidimensional poverty and income inequality in the EU

Lin Yang and Polly Vizard

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Abstract: This paper examines the link between the way a country's most deprived individuals experience disadvantage across multiple dimensions of life and how this may relate to its level of income inequality. By expanding the definition of disadvantage beyond income poverty, we overcome some of the limitations presented by the mechanical link between strictly income-based measures of poverty and inequality. We consider whether – and if so, how – three measures of material deprivation and multidimensional poverty relate iv to income inequality, focusing our analysis on European Union countries.

Keywords: Multidimensional poverty; material deprivation; Inequality; EU (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 I32 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 61 pages
Date: 2017-11
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