The Measurement of Time and Income Poverty

Ajit Zacharias

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Abstract: Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses sufficient time for household production to enable it to reproduce itself as a unit. Several authors have questioned the validity of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I critically review the alternative approaches within a unified framework to highlight the commonalities and relative merits of individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities in the division of household labor and briefly discuss its uses in thinking about antipoverty policies.

Keywords: Time Poverty; Household Production; Gender Disparities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B54 I32 J16 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-10
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