Trends in consumption-based poverty and inequality in the European Union during the 1980s Export

@article{Zaidi2001, abstract = {Most recent studies on poverty and inequality in developed countries focus on income. In contrast, this paper presents trends in consumption-based poverty and inequality in nine member countries of the European Union. During the 1980s, both poverty and inequality increased in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium, while decreases in both poverty and inequality are observed for Spain and Portugal. In Greece only inequality increased. For most countries for which income-based results are available, these move in the same direction as the consumption-based results. However, this sensitivity analysis yields considerable differences in the ranking of countries and the magnitude of the changes.}, author = {Zaidi, Asghar M. and de Vos, Klaas}, citeulike-article-id = {396705}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s001480000038}, journal = {Journal of Population Economics}, keywords = {eu, inequality, poverty}, pages = {367--390}, posted-at = {2005-11-16 13:32:48}, priority = {2}, title = {Trends in consumption-based poverty and inequality in the European Union during the 1980s}, url = {http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s001480000038}, volume = {14}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - Zaidi2001 L3 - citeulike-article-id:396705 N2 - Most recent studies on poverty and inequality in developed countries focus on income. In contrast, this paper presents trends in consumption-based poverty and inequality in nine member countries of the European Union. During the 1980s, both poverty and inequality increased in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium, while decreases in both poverty and inequality are observed for Spain and Portugal. In Greece only inequality increased. For most countries for which income-based results are available, these move in the same direction as the consumption-based results. However, this sensitivity analysis yields considerable differences in the ranking of countries and the magnitude of the changes. JF - Journal of Population Economics EP - 390 TI - Trends in consumption-based poverty and inequality in the European Union during the 1980s VL - 14 SP - 367 KW - eu KW - inequality KW - poverty AU - Zaidi, Asghar AU - de Vos, Klaas PY - 2001/// UR - http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s001480000038 ER -