Poverty and the Measurement of Individual Welfare

Poverty and the Measurement of Individual Welfare

This review of Hagenaars' The Perception of Poverty gives a lengthy presentation and evaluation of the Leyden approach of measuring the individual welfare function of income. The key feature of the approach is the claim that welfare can be measured on a 0,1 scale. The review discusses the book&...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of Human Resources 1988, Vol.23 (2), p.243-266
1. Verfasser: Hartog, Joop
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This review of Hagenaars' The Perception of Poverty gives a lengthy presentation and evaluation of the Leyden approach of measuring the individual welfare function of income. The key feature of the approach is the claim that welfare can be measured on a 0,1 scale. The review discusses the book's wealth of material on poverty in Europe within this theoretical framework.
ISSN:0022-166X
1548-8004
DOI:10.2307/145778