s the link between unemployment and poverty as strong as many people think it is? Possibly not. How strong the link is depends critically on how we measure poverty. And during the past two decades, researchers have identified numerous shortcomings in the government’s official procedures for determining the extent of poverty. In this article, Bob DeFina presents empirical evidence that improved ...

This paper analysed the twin-problems of unemployment and poverty. The methodology adopted in the analyses was a combination of the historical and logico-mathematical research perspectives. The results showed that the technologically advanced nations (TANs) experienced mass unemployment, low productivity, high inflation and prevalent poverty problems for many centuries before they achieved indu...

We studied how personality moderates the effect of neighbourhood disadvantage on work commitment and unemployment in early adulthood. Using a personality typology of resilients, overcontrollers, and undercontrollers, we hypothesised that the association between neighbourhood poverty and both work commitment and unemployment would be stronger for overcontrollers and undercontrollers than for res...

With the development of economy, a series social problems in China have become increasingly prominent. In addition, expansion online and other emerging media on topic Austrian discourse has led to emergence some issues that been ignored or blocked. There are generally Chinese society, such as unemployment, widening wealth gap, imbalanced development, industry misconduct, poverty alleviation, se...

Nigeria is a nation that is endowed with multifarious and multitudinous resources – both human and material. However, due to gross mismanagement, profligate spending, kleptomania and adverse policies of various governments of Nigeria, these resources have not been optimally utilized; these resources have not been adequately channeled to profitable investments to bring about maximum economic ben...

A new economic model is presented. The Persistent Poverty Model shows one possibility of long term general equilibrium with unemployment. This model allows us to explain the NAIRU level and the poor results of conventional economic policies against poverty and long term unemployment. According to this theoretic model, an unconditional basic income policy would be able to reach both targets: pov...

The analysis uses data from the March Current Population Survey to estimate state-level cross-section/time-series models of the effects of unemployment on alternative poverty indexes. The indexes include the official headcount rate and alternatives based on improved identification and aggregation procedures. The estimated effects turn critically on the measurement approaches, both for the total...

This paper begins by asking how poverty in affluent countries should be measured, before examining recent evidence on poverty intensity and its social significance. Section 1 advocates use of the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon index of poverty intensity and introduces the " Poverty Box " as a summary graphical representation. Recently, poverty intensity has increased in Canada while falling in the US. Alth...