Does extreme poverty occur in EU countries?
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2019
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University of Pardubice
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Poverty as a result of income inequality is a concern for governments in all
countries, including the European Union. The question is how serious the poverty is and
in which households it occurs. This paper offers the identification of households at risk of
extreme poverty based on the construction of the Extreme Poverty Index. This Index
combines three dimensions of poverty, reflecting trends in measuring multidimensional
poverty. The first component of the index is income poverty, the second is material
deprivation of households, which complements the index by a non-income perspective and
reflects the real living conditions of households. The third component of the index is the
low work intensity of the household. Segments of households at risk of extreme poverty
are identified in a cluster analysis using primary data from EU-SILC survey. These
identified households should be the target groups of the social policy activities in order
to make social policy and assistance to endangered households as effective as possible.
The paper provides a comparison of extreme poverty in households in the Czech Republic,
Germany, Poland and Slovakia. The most vulnerable segment in all countries is an
unemployed pre-retirement consumer living alone, but also other household groups.
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p. 4 - 15 (12 s.)
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1211-555X (Print)
1804-8048 (Online)
1804-8048 (Online)
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Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice. Series D, Faculty of Economics and Administration. 47/2019
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extreme poverty, income, material deprivation, unemployment, social transfers, EU-SILC