The Case for an EU-wide Measure of Poverty

Fahey, Tony

doi:10.1093/esr/jcl018

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“…Ferrer-i-Carbonell (2005), for example, uses co-nationals with the same age as reference points, and defines individuals to be relatively poor if they earn less than the average of their birth cohort. Fahey (2007) argues towards the use of a common EU-threshold for the definition of poverty; his work can be understood as a plea for using the Europeans as a reference group. Obviously, the larger the group from which the reference point is derived, the less distinguishable relative income and absolute income gets.…”

Section: Relative Income and Absolute Deprivationmentioning

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Well-Being and Inequality

Böhnke

Köhler

2009

Handbook of European Societies

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractAn objective and a subjective approach to study well-being is introduced. The objective approach is particularly useful to compare the quality of life of given societies across time and space. Using the objective approach, we can identify strong differences of quality of life between European countries. In comparison to Western Europe, East European countries tend to have a rather low quality of life. Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium form a cluster of countries with high quality of life. The subjective approach to study well-being is useful for investigating the importance of dimensions of social inequality for people themselves. It is shown that most of the inequality dimensions traditionally analysed by social scientists affect people's subjective well-being. However, it is also shown that some of the more materialistic inequality dimensions (such as income) tend to be less important in rich societies, while certain non-materialistic dimensions (such as family) are getting more important. The subjective approach to study well-being is also used to investigate the importance of characteristics of societies for people's well-being.

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Section: Relative Income and Absolute Deprivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Well-Being and Inequality

Böhnke

Köhler

2009

Handbook of European Societies

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“…At the same time, a common threshold has been proposed to make a comparison between countries, 60% of the European median income, in order to capture the distance with respect to the European average standard of living, to which any citizen could aspire regardless of their place of residence (Atkinson et al, 2005;Fahey, 2007). Therefore, different (regional, national, supranational) poverty thresholds are often used on a complementary basis, although it has been noted that there is a strong case for scaling approaches down to the regional level (Frazer et al, 2014).…”

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“…Al mismo tiempo, en la comparativa entre países, se propone el uso de un umbral común, el 60% de la renta mediana europea, tratando de captar en este caso las distancias con respecto al nivel de vida medio europeo, al que cualquier ciudadano podría aspirar con independencia de su lugar de residencia (Atkinson et al, 2005;Fahey, 2007). Así, a menudo se suelen emplear dis-6 Siguiendo esta perspectiva, Irlanda ha definido su objetivo nacional de la EE 2020 en términos de la pobreza consistente, es decir, la población que simultáneamente sufre pobreza y privación.…”

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Riesgo de pobreza o exclusión social: evolución durante la crisis y perspectiva territorial

Faura-Martínez¹,

Lechuga²,

Luque³

2024

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ResumenEste trabajo analiza la evolución de la tasa de riesgo de pobreza o exclusión social (AROPE) en España durante el reciente periodo de crisis, adoptando una perspectiva regional. Diversas cuestiones metodológicas referidas a la integración de sus componentes cuestionan la idoneidad del AROPE como indicador de la Estrategia Europa 2020. Estos problemas se acentúan en el análisis territorial, por lo que se contrasta el efecto de considerar umbrales de pobreza regionales. Así obtenido, el riesgo de pobreza o exclusión social resulta más acorde al nivel de vida de cada territorio. Mediante un modelo de regresión lineal múltiple, se comprueba que la variabilidad regional de la tasa AROPE depende fundamentalmente de la tasa de pobreza; no obstante, su poder explicativo disminuye, en favor de los indicadores de privación y empleo, al utilizar umbrales regionales de pobreza. Key words Regional Inequalities • Social Exclusion • Standard of Living • Unemployment • Poverty AbstractThis paper uses a regional perspective to analyse the progression of the risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) rate in Spain during the recent crisis period. Various methodological issues related to how the components of the AROPE rate are integrated have brought into question its suitability as the Europe 2020 strategy indicator. As these problems are accentuated in the analysis of individual territories, this paper examines the effect of using regional poverty thresholds. When these are included, the risk of poverty or social exclusion is more consistent with the standard of living enjoyed in each territory. In addition, this paper mainly on the poverty rate by the application of a multiple linear regression model. Nonetheless, the explanatory power of the deprivation and employment indicators diminishes when using regional poverty thresholds. Cómo citarFaura-Martínez, Úrsula; Lafuente-Lechuga, Matilde y García-Luque, Olga (2016 60Riesgo de pobreza o exclusión social: evolución durante la crisis y perspectiva territorial IntroduccIón Al analizar la extensión del riesgo de pobreza o exclusión social en nuestro país se hace necesario adoptar una perspectiva regional, dado que, además de los factores estructurales ligados a las características personales y familiares, el proceso de descentralización del gasto social hacia las comunidades autónomas y las divergencias socioeconómi-cas entre ellas otorgan relevancia a los factores de tipo espacial. Así, las denominadas causas territoriales de la pobreza, derivadas de una dispar distribución regional de los factores educativos, laborales o demográfi-cos, parecen contribuir de forma significativa al riesgo de pobreza (Jurado y Pérez, 2010: 62-63).Desde mediados de los años ochenta, diversos estudios han analizado las desigualdades de renta y pobreza entre comunidades autónomas en nuestro país (RuizCastillo, 1987; Ruiz-Huerta y Martínez, 1994; Jurado y Pérez, 2007 y 2010Ayala, 2008 Ayala, y 2010 García et al., 2009). El concepto más amplio de exclusión social también ha sido objeto de ...

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“…Poorer Member States would have to demand a relatively greater additional (tax) effort from their middle and higher-income families for the funding of adequate minimum income protection than the richer Member States would. Moreover, 'middle and higher incomes' in the poorer Member States may be very low incomes in comparison to 'middle and higher incomes' in the richer Member States (Fahey, 2007;Lelkes et al, 2009, Decancq et al, forthcoming). The policy conundrum, then, is a fundamental solidarity conundrum.…”

Section: Unequal Redistributive Effortmentioning

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“…25 Fahey (2007) argues that the EU should foremost focus on a pan-European poverty indicator based on a pan-European poverty threshold, since the EU's effective competences relate to pan-European cohesion rather than to national social cohesion.…”

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The EU and Minimum Income Protection: Clarifying the Policy Conundrum

Vandenbroucke¹,

Cantillon²,

Mechelen³

et al. 2013

Minimum Income Protection in Flux

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Should the EU be involved in the governance of minimum income protection, and if it should, in which role precisely? This question raises a complex policy conundrum. We focus on a proposal by the European AntiPoverty Network (EAPN) for an EU Framework Directive on Minimum Income Protection, in order to examine three aspects of that policy conundrum: (1) the instrumental relevance of minimum income protection; (2) the unequal burden of the redistributive effort that would be required across the EU if the Union were to impose hic et nunc a minimum income guarantee of 60% or 40% of the median national income in all Member States; and (3) the impact on dependency traps, under the same hypothesis. We illustrate each of these observations empirically, using cross-nationally comparable data on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) and minimum income protection levels (CSB-MIPI). Since a harmonised minimum income scheme requires a significantly greater budgetary effort on behalf of some of the poorer Member States in Eastern and Southern Europe, it raises a complex question about the meaning of solidarity within the EU. Enhanced solidarity within Member States cannot be decoupled from enhanced solidarity among Member States -and vice versa. Simultaneously, the EU should put positive pressure on poorer and richer Member States to gradually improve the overall quality and efficiency of their welfare regimes. In this context, the prospect of gradually and flexibly introducing a more binding EU framework on minimum income protection may become realistic.

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The Case for an EU-wide Measure of Poverty

Cited by 102 publications

References 14 publications

Well-Being and Inequality

Well-Being and Inequality

Riesgo de pobreza o exclusión social: evolución durante la crisis y perspectiva territorial

The EU and Minimum Income Protection: Clarifying the Policy Conundrum

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