, elderly population, and children in single mother families significantly influence the headcount measure of poverty, while …This study assesses if structural theory explains the variation in poverty across rich Western democracies. With … unbalanced panel analysis of 18 countries, two poverty measures and controlling for the welfare state and economic performance, I …

This study investigates the relationship between the welfare state and poverty with multiple measures of the welfare … state and poverty in an unbalanced panel of 18 Western nations from 1967 to 1997. While addressing the limitations of past … research, the analysis shows that social security transfers and public health spending significantly reduce poverty. Less …

2000. Both the elderly and children are much more likely to be poor than the overall population. Analyses of 18 rich …This study challenges the conventional wisdom that elderly, child and overall poverty are divergent. Comparing the … poverty by a significant amount and child poverty by a lesser amount. The elderly were considerably more likely to be poor …

poverty across affluent democracies from 1969 to 2000. Specifically, we address three issues. First, we provide more recent … feminization of poverty is nearly universal across affluent Western democracies 1969-2000. Second, we show that women's, men's and …Our study extends research on the feminization of poverty by analyzing the variation in women's, men's and feminized …

Liberal economic precepts have long been a foundation for the social science of poverty and continue to profoundly … influence public policy. Liberal economics contends that poverty is dependent on the harmonious progress of economic growth … evaluate the liberal economic model of poverty with an unbalanced panel analysis of 18 Western nations from 1967 to 1997 and …

circa 2000. We demonstrate that working poverty does not simply mirror overall poverty and that there is greater cross …Despite its centrality to contemporary inequality, working poverty is often popularly discussed but rarely studied by …-national variation in working than overall poverty. We then examine four explanations for working poverty: demographic characteristics …

generosity reduces the extent to which low education and the number of children increase poverty. Also, welfare generosity … poverty. Using the Luxembourg Income Study, we conduct a multilevel analysis of working-aged adult poverty across 18 affluent … Western democracies. Our index of welfare generosity has a negative effect on poverty net of individual characteristics and …

poverty with a multi-level analysis across 18 affluent democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all … countries, there is even more cross-national variation in single mother poverty than for poverty among the overall population …. By far, the U.S. has the highest rate of poverty among single mothers. The analyses show that single mother poverty is a …

Despite serious methodological problems, quantitative studies of poverty by U.S. sociologists predominantly rely on the … theoretical advances in poverty measurement. In turn, I argue than an ideal measure of poverty should: a) measure comparative … historical variation effectively; b) be relative rather than absolute; c) conceptualize poverty as social exclusion; d) integrate …