Measuring the effect of spell recurrence on poverty dynamics
Publisher
Instituto de Estudios Fiscales
Date
2008Bibliographic citation
Papeles de trabajo. Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, nº 5, 2008. ISSN 1578-0252
Keywords
Poverty dynamics
Hazard models
Multiple states
Multiple spells
Unobserved heterogeneity
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
The analysis of poverty dynamics yields important insights about the expected effectiveness of alternative social policies on poverty reduction. This paper analyses the effect of spell recurrence on poverty dynamics taking into account multiple poverty and non-poverty spells by spell order. Using data for
Spain during a seven year period, we obtain that the poverty exit and re-entry rates vary not only with personal or household characteristics but also with spell accumulation and with the duration of past spells. Results indicate that the effect of duration dependence is significant and turns out to be different by spell order.
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