Class and Poverty: Cross-sectional and Dynamic Analysis of Income Poverty and Life- style Deprivation Dorothy Watson, Christopher T. Whelan and Bertrand Maitre ESRI Dublin ESeC Workshop Lisbon February 2006

Goals Use Data from ECHP to Validate ESeC in terms of poverty and deprivation Building on body of work using ECHP, predict class differences will become stronger as we move from –income to deprivation –point-in-time to persistence

Hypotheses Stronger class differences as one moves from Income poverty --> deprivation --> Consistent poverty Point-in-time --> persistent poverty / deprivation Persistent income poverty --> persistent deprivation --> Both

Risk of Income Poverty and Deprivation All Countries, Log Ratio to Average

Illustrated Country Differences Germany & Greece

Persistent Poverty & Deprivation All Countries

Illustrative Country Differences France & Portugal

Cross-classification of Persistent Poverty & Deprivation All Countries

Class Gaps for Persistent Income Poverty, Persistent Deprivation and Both Ratio to ESeC 1, All Countries

Conclusions Results support hypotheses –Class differences more pronounced as focus shifts to deprivation and persistence –ESeC behaves as we would expect a good measure of class to behave Marked country similarities, but some country differences –Outcomes for Classes 1 and 5 most variable across countries –Smallholders ‘better off’ in Northern countries