Who are the Truly Poor? Patterns of Official and Net Earnings Capacity Poverty, 1973–88

Haveman, Robert; Buron, Larry

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Poverty and Prosperity in the USA in the Late Twentieth Century 1993

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Who are the Truly Poor? Patterns of Official and Net Earnings Capacity Poverty, 1973–88

Robert Haveman

Larry Buron²

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“…On the other hand, for many low-paid workers, the move to better-paid jobs may have proved to be short-lived, and the probability of leaving employment altogether has been high. Even if having a job provides a better chance of upward mobility than having no job at all, a job alone may not have been sufficient to move out of the bottom of the distribution, particularly for the unskilled, thus pointing to the need for support measures of various kinds (Haveman and Buron, 1993;OECD, 1997).…”

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“…Prior studies that have employed measures of earnings capacity are Garfinkel and Haveman (1977), Haveman and Buron (1992), and Haveman and Bershadker (1998). 12 We define FTFY labor force participation as 2000 or more hours of work in a year.…”

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The “Inability to be Self‐Reliant” as an Indicator of Poverty: Trends for the U.S., 1975–97

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Bershadker

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In this paper we present a new concept of poverty, Self-Reliant poverty, which is based on the ability of a family, using its own resources, to support a level of consumption in excess of needs. This concept closely parallels the ''capability poverty'' measure that has been proposed by Amartya Sen. We use this measure to examine the trend and composition of the Self-Reliant poor population from 1975 to 1997. We find that Self-Reliant poverty has increased more rapidly over this period than has official poverty. Families considered to be the most vulnerable-those headed by minorities, single women with children, and individuals with low levels of education-have the highest levels of Self-Reliant poverty. However, these groups have also experienced the smallest increases in poverty. Conversely, families largely thought to be economically secure-those headed by whites, married men with children, and highly educated individuals-have the lowest levels of Self-Reliant poverty, but have experienced the largest increases in poverty. We also find that the Self-Reliant poor is increasingly composed of vulnerable groups relative to the composition of the official poor. The labor market, demographic, and policy sources of the divergent trends in Self-Reliant and official poverty, and of the gender, race and family structure changes in poverty rates are explored.

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Assessing poverty. Some reflections on the literature

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1995

J Popul Econ

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This paper examines the quantitative poverty measurement literature.After describing the literature a number of issues in poverty research are discussed. It can be concluded that the framework for poverty assessments is not always fixed. Much has been written about the poverty line but the issue of updating it seems to have attracted less attention than deserved. Substantial advancements in poverty research have been gained by fuller reports on the extent of poverty through the use of poverty indices and because of increased availability of panel data.

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Who are the Truly Poor? Patterns of Official and Net Earnings Capacity Poverty, 1973–88

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Income Distribution and Poverty in Selected OECD Countries

Income Distribution and Poverty in Selected OECD Countries

The “Inability to be Self‐Reliant” as an Indicator of Poverty: Trends for the U.S., 1975–97

Assessing poverty. Some reflections on the literature

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