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Book Quantifying Consumer Preferences

Download or read book Quantifying Consumer Preferences written by Daniel Slottje and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demand studies and understanding consumer behavior remain two of the most important areas of analysis by practicing applied economists and econometricians. This book presents research on the estimation of demand systems and the measurement of consumer preferences.

Book Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation

Download or read book Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation written by Jacques Silber and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing chapters that address both unidimensional and multidimensional poverty, this timely Research Handbook explores all aspects of poverty and deprivation measurement, not only detailing broad issues but also scrutinising specific domains and aspects of poverty, such as health, energy and housing. Its succinct and highly focussed chapters, written by a diverse range of authors, employ a combination of theoretical and empirical methodologies to offer well-rounded explorations of complex topics.

Book Interpreting Official Statistics

Download or read book Interpreting Official Statistics written by Will Guy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpreting Official Statistics examines the official statistics produced about the current state of British society. It documents some of the ways in which information has been suppressed, manipulated and misinterpreted since 1979. This invaluable guide is designed to help students know what figures are available, and to discover when and how politicians are misusing statistics. Data sets covered include: * Households below average income * Administrative and survey methods of unemployment and crime * Population census data on ethnicity * Data sources on women and work * Data on the relationship between class and health, and safety at work * New data sources on disability * Labour Force Survey.

Book Identifying the Poor  Using Subjective and Consensual Measures

Download or read book Identifying the Poor Using Subjective and Consensual Measures written by Karel Van Den Bosch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: An investigation into the problem of identifying the poor and determining the poverty line. The book focuses on one particular approach to the issue, where survey respondents are asked for their views, and outlines the four variants in the approach: the consensual income method; the consensual standard of living method; the income evaluation method; and the income satisfaction method. The book contains an extensive and thorough review of the theoretical and empirical literature, as well as rigorous analysis of survey data from Belgium. The result is a conclusive assessment of the validity and usefulness of the subjective and consensual approaches to poverty measurement.

Book Measuring Poverty

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Research Council
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 1995-04-26
  • ISBN : 0309176840
  • Pages : 521 pages

Download or read book Measuring Poverty written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-04-26 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year's poverty figures are anxiously awaited by policymakers, analysts, and the media. Yet questions are increasing about the 30-year-old measure as social and economic conditions change. In Measuring Poverty a distinguished panel provides policymakers with an up-to-date evaluation of: Concepts and procedures for deriving the poverty threshold, including adjustments for different family circumstances. Definitions of family resources. Procedures for annual updates of poverty measures. The volume explores specific issues underlying the poverty measure, analyzes the likely effects of any changes on poverty rates, and discusses the impact on eligibility for public benefits. In supporting its recommendations the panel provides insightful recognition of the political and social dimensions of this key economic indicator. Measuring Poverty will be important to government officials, policy analysts, statisticians, economists, researchers, and others involved in virtually all poverty and social welfare issues.

Book What Has Happened to the Quality of Life in the Advanced Industrialized Nations

Download or read book What Has Happened to the Quality of Life in the Advanced Industrialized Nations written by Edward N. Wolff and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although per capita income in the United States outstripped that in other developed countries during the 1990s, it is questionable if the levels of welfare services that it provides to its citizens has kept pace. This study examines how the standard of living is measured.

Book Familles Et Niveau de Vie

Download or read book Familles Et Niveau de Vie written by Olivia Ekert-Jaffé and published by John Libbey Eurotext. This book was released on 1994 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Poverty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Spicker
  • Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
  • Release : 2013-07-04
  • ISBN : 1848137540
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Poverty written by Paul Spicker and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers, students and policy makers aware of the multi-dimensional and complex nature of this social condition. This revised edition includes a range of new entries to keep pace with an expanding field of discourse, an extended set of references, and further perspectives from developing countries. A particular effort has been made to incorporate non-Western approaches and concepts.

Book Taxation and Economic Behaviour  Introductory surveys in economics

Download or read book Taxation and Economic Behaviour Introductory surveys in economics written by John Creedy and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a number of broad introductory surveys in public economics and public finance. Divided clearly into two parts -measurement issues and taxation and economic behaviour - the collection consists of published refereed papers and several unpublished pieces.

Book Global Report on Student Well Being

Download or read book Global Report on Student Well Being written by Alex C. Michalos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I suppose that most of the people reading this volume will have read or have access to Volume One of my Global Report on Student Well Being. Therefore, I will not review the background literature relevant to multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), the theory itself or the es sential features of the international university undergraduate data-set on which this whole report is based. Anyone familiar with my earlier papers (Michalos 1985, 1987, 1988) will have a good idea of MDT. However, one really has to have a look at the first volume of this study in order to appreciate the richness of a data-set consisting of over 18,000 cases drawn from 39 countries. As I indicated at the be ginning of that volume, the data-set is available for a very modest cost to anyone who wants it and I do hope others will take advantage of it. The focus of Volume One was on happiness and satisfaction with life as a whole, so-called global indicators of subjective well being. Volume Two was devoted to an exploration of satisfaction with the interpersonal relations of family, friends and living partners, and personal self-esteem. This volume is concerned with satisfaction with material goods as indicated by the domains of paid employment, fi nances, housing and transportation. In the fourth and final volume I will explain satisfaction with religion, education, recreation and health.

Book Economic Well being and Household Size

Download or read book Economic Well being and Household Size written by James Blaylock and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Researching Poverty

Download or read book Researching Poverty written by Jonathan Bradshaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: This collection of papers reviews the theory, method and policy relevance of post-war poverty research. It is designed to contribute to bringing high quality research in this area back to the centre of both social research and informed policy debate.

Book Poverty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Professor John Dixon
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2002-01-04
  • ISBN : 1134756534
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Poverty written by Professor John Dixon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the long-standing global issue of poverty. An introductory chapter explores concepts and definitions of poverty, the subsequent chapters providing detailed examinations of poverty in ten different countries: UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malta, The Netherlands, The Philippines and Zimbabwe. Each chapter follows a consistent format, to facilitate comparison and focuses on the following issues:- * the socio-economic and historical context within which poverty exists * the extent and nature of poverty its causes * the measures that have been taken to mitigate it. This book will be essential reading for students of social policy and administration as well as development studies and anthropology.

Book Shielding the Poor

Download or read book Shielding the Poor written by Nora Claudia Lustig and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brookings Institution Press and Inter-American Development Bank publication The poor in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to adverse shocks. They have little or no access to public social insurance, are unlikely to save in adequate amounts to rely fully on self-insurance or informal insurance, face restricted access to private market insurance or credit mechanisms, and have little or no political voice to demand the protection of safety net programs. In this book, the authors analyze the best ways to help the poor manage risks such as health shocks, unemployment, sudden drops in income, and old age. Unemployment benefits, employment programs, means-tested social assistance, social investment funds, and micro-finance for consumption-smoothing purposes are the leading options considered. The book provides a careful assessment of issues that governments need to address in the process of designing appropriate safety nets.

Book Poverty in the 1990s

Download or read book Poverty in the 1990s written by Tim Callan and published by Combat Poverty Agency. This book was released on 1996 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1994 Living in Ireland Survey provides a major source of research for this book on poverty in Ireland, helping to provide an updated picture of the subject and who is affected. In-depth interviews with over 4000 households highlight important changes in the home.