Missing poor and income mobility
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Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée
2 CORE - Center of Operation Research and Econometrics [Louvain]
3 PSE - Paris School of Economics
4 PJSE - Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques
5 ERUDITE - Equipe de Recherche sur l’Utilisation des Données Individuelles en lien avec la Théorie Economique
6 IUF - Institut universitaire de France
2 CORE - Center of Operation Research and Econometrics [Louvain]
3 PSE - Paris School of Economics
4 PJSE - Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques
5 ERUDITE - Equipe de Recherche sur l’Utilisation des Données Individuelles en lien avec la Théorie Economique
6 IUF - Institut universitaire de France
Mathieu Lefebvre
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Grégory Ponthière
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Résumé
Higher mortality among the poor prevents standard poverty measures from quantifying the actual extent of old-age poverty. Whereas existing attempts to deal with the ”missing poor” problem assume the absence of income mobility and assign to the prematurely dead a fictitious income equal to the last income enjoyed, this paper relaxes that assumption in order to study the impact of income mobility on the size of the missing poor bias. We use data on poverty above age 60 in 12 countries from the EU-SILC database, and we compare standard poverty rates with the hypothetical poverty rates that would have prevailed if (i) all individuals, whatever their income, had enjoyed the same survival conditions, and if (ii) all individuals within the same income class had been subject to the same income mobility process. Taking income mobility into account has unequal effects on corrected poverty measures across countries, and, hence, affects international comparisons in terms of old-age poverty.
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Type de dépôt | Article dans une revue |
Résumé |
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Higher mortality among the poor prevents standard poverty measures from quantifying the actual extent of old-age poverty. Whereas existing attempts to deal with the ”missing poor” problem assume the absence of income mobility and assign to the prematurely dead a fictitious income equal to the last income enjoyed, this paper relaxes that assumption in order to study the impact of income mobility on the size of the missing poor bias. We use data on poverty above age 60 in 12 countries from the EU-SILC database, and we compare standard poverty rates with the hypothetical poverty rates that would have prevailed if (i) all individuals, whatever their income, had enjoyed the same survival conditions, and if (ii) all individuals within the same income class had been subject to the same income mobility process. Taking income mobility into account has unequal effects on corrected poverty measures across countries, and, hence, affects international comparisons in terms of old-age poverty.
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Missing poor and income mobility
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Auteur(s) |
Mathieu Lefebvre
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, Pierre Pestieau
2, 3, 4
, Grégory Ponthière
3, 5, 6, 4
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BETA -
Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée
( 93745 )
- Université de Lorraine, UFR Droit Sciences Economiques et Gestion, 13 place Carnot CO 70026, 54035 Nancy Cedex
Université de Strasbourg, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion, 61 avenue de la Forêt Noire 67085 Strasbourg Cedex
- France
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CORE -
Center of Operation Research and Econometrics [Louvain]
( 48233 )
- 34, Voie du Roman Pays B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
- Belgique
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PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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PJSE -
Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques
( 1171428 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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ERUDITE -
Equipe de Recherche sur l’Utilisation des Données Individuelles en lien avec la Théorie Economique
( 74242 )
- UPEM, 5 boulevard Descartes, 77454 Marne-la-Vallée CEDEX 2
UPEC - Faculté de sciences économiques et de gestion
Mail des mèches Rue Poète et Sellier 94010 Créteil Cedex
- France
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IUF -
Institut universitaire de France
( 56663 )
- Maison des Universités 103 Boulevard Saint-Michel 75005 Paris
- France
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Volume |
47
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Numéro |
2
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Page/Identifiant |
330-366
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Audience |
Internationale
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Date de publication |
2019-06
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Poverty, Mortality, Missing poor, Income mobility, Measurement
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DOI | 10.1016/j.jce.2018.12.002 |
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