Poverty and Equivalence as Social Constructions

Lee Rainwater ()

No 55, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: This paper argues that a correct approach to the study of poverty must proceed from a sociologically grounded understanding of material and social well-being in modern societies. From reanalysis of Gallop poll data covering the period 1950-1968, this paper concludes that the elasticity of the poverty line is unitary.

Date: 1990-08
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