A Multidimensional Approach to the Gender Gap in Poverty: An Application for Turkey
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2022
Authors
Akbulut, Bengi
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Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Conventional poverty measures have long been criticized as a poor gauge of quality of life. Household-level income or expenditure data used in these measures are silent on intrahousehold inequalities and capture means to an end rather than outcomes and opportunities individuals face. This article constructs a multidimensional poverty index (MPI) to address these problems. It calculates multidimensional poverty for Turkey in four equally weighted dimensions: education, health, employment, and household living conditions. The study introduces employment as a distinct dimension of well-being, which is especially pertinent for the gender gap in poverty in the Turkish context. It finds a significant (30-34 percent) gender poverty gap, which is gradually narrowing over time. However, there is very little convergence between regions. Finally, results show households with multidimensionally poor women and non-poor men as the most common sub-group and an increase in the share of households with no poor members.
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Capabilities, Feminization, Inequality, Employment, Household, Index, Women, Work, Capabilities, Feminization, Inequality, Multidimensional poverty, Employment, gender poverty gap, Household, intrahousehold inequality, Index, employment, Women, Survey of Income and Living Conditions, Work, Turkey
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5
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Feminist Economics
Volume
28
Issue
2
Start Page
119
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151