Multidimensional Time and Income Poverty: Well-Being Gap and Minimum 2DGAP Poverty Intensity - German Evidence

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This paper focuses on interdependent multidimensional poverty of time and income with its incidence and intensity. We introduce a Two Dimensional Minimum Poverty Gap (2DGAP) measure, which quantifies the shortest path to escape multidimensional poverty. The 2DGAP disentangles single poverty attribute gaps while assuring their interdependence; an important issue for targeted antipoverty policies. Besides income, we include genuine personal leisure time with social participation reflecting Sen’s capability approach. The interdependence of multidimensional poverty is estimated by a CES-type well-being function with individual German data. The empirical results of Germany’s “working poor” emphasize the importance of time with social participation aspects in the multidimensional poverty discussion.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Economic Inequality
Volume12
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)555-580
Number of pages26
ISSN1569-1721
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12.2014

    Research areas

  • Economics - CES well-being function, Extended economic well-being, Genuine personal leisure time, German Socio-Economic Panel, German Time Use Survey 2001/02, Interdependent multidimensional time and income poverty, Minimum multidimensional poverty gap (2DGAP), Satisfaction/happiness, Union and compensation approach, Working poor
  • Economics, empirical/statistics
  • Gender and Diversity