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International Comparisons of Income Poverty and Extreme Income Poverty

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  • McKinley Blackburn

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Uses LIS data to study the sensitivity of cross-national income poverty comparisons to the method in which poverty is measured. Examined are the differences between using absolute and relative poverty comparisons as well as the consequence of lowering the real value of the poverty line to examine extreme poverty.

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  • McKinley Blackburn, 1993. "International Comparisons of Income Poverty and Extreme Income Poverty," LIS Working papers 97, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
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    1. Sarah Brown & John G. Sessions & Duncan Watson, "undated". "The Relative Contributions of Wage and Hours Constraints to Working Poverty in Britain," Discussion Papers in Public Sector Economics 01/4, Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester.
    2. Hwanjoon Kim, 2000. "Anti-Poverty Effectiveness of Taxes and Income Transfers in Welfare States," LIS Working papers 228, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
    3. Duncan Watson & Robert Webb, 2009. "Do Europeans View their Homes as Castles? Homeownership and Poverty Perception throughout Europe," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 46(9), pages 1787-1805, August.

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