A framework for the decomposition of poverty differences with an application to poverty differences between countries

Empirical Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 331-358

  Biewen, Martin ^a,c,d   Jenkins, Stephen P ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c IZA   (Germany)

^d DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dagum distribution; Poverty; Singh Maddala distribution

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY DETERMINANT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24044436833     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-004-0229-1     Document Type: Article

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