Inflation, Unemployment, and Poverty Revisited
使用基于实际消费而非收入的贫困率，发现失业对消费贫困和收入贫困均有显著正向影响，而通货膨胀对消费贫困的影响比以往研究认为的更大。
Most of the research that uses income to measure economic well-being shows that while unemployment has a strong positive effect on poverty rates, inflation has very little effect. This paper considers the impact of inflation and unemployment on poverty, using a poverty rate based on goods and services actually consumed, rather than on income. The findings suggest that increases in unemployment are associated with increases in both the consumption poverty rate and trie conventional income poverty rate. However, inflation seems to have a robust and relatively large positive influence on consumption poverty, indicating that inflation may harm the poor more than was previously thought. Economic Review is published quarterly by the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Copies of the