fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin" …

effect of the crisis on the population shares, the mean incomes and the level of poverty of various population groups using … "anchored" poverty lines and distribution-sensitive poverty indices are employed the level of poverty rises to incredibly high … levels. When the poverty lines used are "relative", the poverty rate does not change substantially but when distribution …

effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the …-economic groups rose. All poverty indicators suggest that poverty increased substantially, especially when "anchored" poverty lines … are used. Substantial changes are observed regarding the structure of poverty. Despite an increase in the population share …

therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted in the ideas of empowerment and capability, and find that the …

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries … analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates of the poverty reduction impact are presented in a normalized and un …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … better formulate policies of fostering inclusive growth. Economic growth itself is an important source of welfare …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

multidimensional distributions, where the multiple attributes in which an individual can be deprived are represented by dichotomized …. Moreover, second-degree upward and downward count distribution dominance are shown to be useful criteria for dividing the … measures of deprivation into two separate subfamilies. To provide a normative justification of the dominance criteria we …

welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a … welfare function, we are able to endow the function with a social-psychological underpinning, showing that this function, too … booster of social welfare in Sen's social welfare function. Quite surprisingly, we find that a marginal increase of income for …