Material Deprivation in Selected EU Countries According to EU-SILC Income Statistics
The article deals with issues of households at risk of poverty in relative conception. Income poverty means a situation when the threshold of 0.6 of median income is not achieved. The analysis of a broader definition of poverty is based on identification and assessment of material deprivation factor...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Tomas Bata University in Zlín
2012-06-01
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Series: | Journal of Competitiveness |
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Online Access: | http://www.cjournal.cz/files/101.pdf |
Summary: | The article deals with issues of households at risk of poverty in relative conception. Income poverty means a situation when the threshold of 0.6 of median income is not achieved. The analysis of a broader definition of poverty is based on identification and assessment of material deprivation factors, including: financial stress, housing conditions, availability of consumer durables and basic needs. Data sources are based EU-SILC dataset. Presented analysis is focused on selected EU countries, namely Czech Republic, Finland, France, Spain and United Kingdom. The result identifies the problem areas that cause deprivation symptoms. |
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ISSN: | 1804-171X 1804-1728 |