A new poverty indicator for Europe
The extended headcount ratio
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12255649 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Goedemé (0000-0002-2985-4320, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium), Benoît Decerf (0000-0002-0768-501X, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium; the World Bank, Washington DC, USA, corresponding author), Karel Van Den Bosch (0000-0002-3996-550X, University of Antwerp) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 287-301 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of European Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0958-9287 • E-ISSN: 1461-7269 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09589287221080414 |
| OpenAlex | W3203164728 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 27 |
The methodology currently used to measure poverty in the European Union faces some important limitations. Capturing key aspects of poverty is done using a dashboard of indicators, which often tell conflicting stories. We propose a new income-based measure of poverty for Europe that captures in a consistent way in a single indicator the level of relative poverty, the intensity of poverty, poverty with a threshold anchored in time and a pan-European perspective on poverty. To do so, we work with a recently developed poverty index, the extended headcount ratio (EHC) and derive the relevant poverty lines to apply the index to poverty in Europe. We show empirically that our measure consistently captures the aspects typically monitored using a variety of indicators and yields rankings that seem more aligned with intuitions than those obtained by these individual indicators. According to our measure, Eastern Europe has a much higher level of poverty than Southern Europe, which, in turn, has a considerably higher level of poverty than North-Western Europe. In North-Western Europe, the evolution of our measure over time correlates most strongly with the at-risk-of-poverty rate, while in Southern and Eastern Europe, it correlates most strongly with at-risk-of-poverty with the threshold anchored in time
Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · European union · Index (typography · International economics · Measure (data warehouse · Poverty · Computer Science · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Global Health Care Issues · Income, Poverty, and Inequality
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |