The Monetary and Non-Monetary Aspects of Poverty in Poland and Slovakia

The purpose of this paper is to present the level of poverty risk of households in Polish and Slovak society in two aspects: monetary and non-monetary. In this study, to evaluate poverty risk in these dimensions, there were used estimated values of the poverty risk function for each household in an...

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Main Authors: Paweł Ulman, Erik Šoltés
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cracow University of Economics 2015-05-01
Series:Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review
Online Access:http:////eber.uek.krakow.pl/index.php/eber/article/view/69
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spelling doaj-78a729e4979a42ccb1d27672cd1181ea2020-11-25T01:27:38ZengCracow University of EconomicsEntrepreneurial Business and Economics Review2353-883X2353-88212015-05-0131617310.15678/EBER.2015.03010563The Monetary and Non-Monetary Aspects of Poverty in Poland and SlovakiaPaweł Ulman0Erik Šoltés1Cracow University of EconomicsUniversity of Economics in BratislavaThe purpose of this paper is to present the level of poverty risk of households in Polish and Slovak society in two aspects: monetary and non-monetary. In this study, to evaluate poverty risk in these dimensions, there were used estimated values of the poverty risk function for each household in an integrated, relative and fuzzy approach. This feature has been calibrated to reflect the overall results of the assessment of poverty in the classical approach using relative and subjective methods of determining the poverty line. The research found that there were differences in poverty risk both within national communities and the studied countries. Such two-way diversity of impoverishment was observed primarily in the classification of households due to the demographic composition of the household. There is a need for a broader study of diversity i.a. the structure of poverty, its level, dynamics and factors determining it in both countries. This wide research project may help to answer the question of changes in the evolution of poverty in Slovakia after its accession to the Eurozone, which is extremely important in the context of the Polish accession to the zone. The originality of the work is manifested primarily in a comparative study of poverty risk for communities of the two countries: Poland and Slovakia, which allowed observing differences in the risk in a cross-country system.//eber.uek.krakow.pl/index.php/eber/article/view/69
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The Monetary and Non-Monetary Aspects of Poverty in Poland and Slovakia
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title The Monetary and Non-Monetary Aspects of Poverty in Poland and Slovakia
title_short The Monetary and Non-Monetary Aspects of Poverty in Poland and Slovakia
title_full The Monetary and Non-Monetary Aspects of Poverty in Poland and Slovakia
title_fullStr The Monetary and Non-Monetary Aspects of Poverty in Poland and Slovakia
title_full_unstemmed The Monetary and Non-Monetary Aspects of Poverty in Poland and Slovakia
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publisher Cracow University of Economics
series Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review
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2353-8821
publishDate 2015-05-01
description The purpose of this paper is to present the level of poverty risk of households in Polish and Slovak society in two aspects: monetary and non-monetary. In this study, to evaluate poverty risk in these dimensions, there were used estimated values of the poverty risk function for each household in an integrated, relative and fuzzy approach. This feature has been calibrated to reflect the overall results of the assessment of poverty in the classical approach using relative and subjective methods of determining the poverty line. The research found that there were differences in poverty risk both within national communities and the studied countries. Such two-way diversity of impoverishment was observed primarily in the classification of households due to the demographic composition of the household. There is a need for a broader study of diversity i.a. the structure of poverty, its level, dynamics and factors determining it in both countries. This wide research project may help to answer the question of changes in the evolution of poverty in Slovakia after its accession to the Eurozone, which is extremely important in the context of the Polish accession to the zone. The originality of the work is manifested primarily in a comparative study of poverty risk for communities of the two countries: Poland and Slovakia, which allowed observing differences in the risk in a cross-country system.
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