both the highest child poverty rate (20 percent or more) and the widest economic distance from poor to rich children of any …All modern societies face the issue of how to best support its children when labor and capital markets fail to produce … to provide for both a minimally adequate level of economic and social support for families with children, and an equal …

exclusion can be estimated by establishing how common or deep poverty is among the employed and the unemployed. This is the … respect. The fact that poverty is equally common or rare among the unemployed and the employed can be due to many factors …. Small differences may be due to income transfers that effectively combat poverty even in the absence of income from work. On …

(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers ́labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers. …

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of … a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor …

In the EU there is growing concern about poverty among children, and among families with children. In most OECD … countries, income poverty among children now exceeds that among the elderly, who traditionally were the demographic group most … at risk of poverty (Jäntti and Danziger, 2000). However, the policy response of most industrialized countries in the past …

poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …