immigrants is the disproportional, prolonged poverty in these immigrant cohorts. The Sen index of poverty intensity captures … incidence, depth, and equality of poverty and permits subgroup decomposition and therefore is a good choice. The immigrant …This paper uses a poverty intensity measure to provide additional empirical evidence on the assimilation of immigrant …

increased incarceration on national poverty measurement using micro data for the period 1979--1997. We make use of an as … population. Sen's generalized measure of poverty is the poverty index we choose. This index encompasses the rate of poverty, the … income gap of the poor, and the degree of inequality among the poor. It is found that the traditional measurement of poverty …

incorrectly. Similarly, poverty is a trail which can bring great rewards if borne with patience and prayer, and also cause great … means that Islamic approaches to constructing an index for welfare must be substantially more complicated than those … currently in use in the west. It is worth considering the reasons for undertaking the project of measurement and assessing what …

Based on a measure of the gap in basic worker's rights between the ideal world, represented by the ILO's core … Conventions, and the real world, as reflected in countries' actual situations. Presents a series of tables showing normalized and …

index values for a number of countries around the world. …

This paper applies a multidimensional approach to poverty measurement based on fuzzy set theory, and its decomposition … properties, in order to measure the deprivation level in Luxembourg and to identify the different characteristics of poverty …

Sen [1976] with the Gini index of poverty gap ratio, that is, a fundamental component of Sen’s poverty index. The problem …In 1990, Cerioli and Zani introduced an operational multivariate method to analyse and measure poverty, aiming at … incorporating several dimensions of poverty. As Dagum and Costa [2004] showed, this study applies the fuzzy set theoretic approach …