Three decades ago, Canada and the United States shared almost identical relative poverty and inequality levels. Yet … experienced diametrically opposite trends in relative household poverty. While levels of poverty increased in the U.S. during this … period, Canada has experienced declining household poverty. Several institutional economists have utilized the comparative …

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 …

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 …

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 13 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg … the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty … child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe. …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

measured by using some standard methods in this field of study: income distribution and poverty. Moreover, we will study the … effectivity of social transfer systems to alleviate poverty in various countries. Fourthly, and lastly, we are interested in the …

poverty circa 2000. Child maintenance made a comparatively small contribution to the relief of child poverty overall, but if … poverty. The LIS analysis compares the prevalence and characteristics of lone parents, explores the proportion of families … with children receiving child maintenance, and the contribution that it made to their income and the reduction of child …

policies on their poverty levels. Specifically, the paper conducts multi-level regression analyses across 18 OECD countries … decrease in poverty levels among the low skilled. The negative effect of passive labor market policies (PLMP) on poverty is … only significant for the older male group. Family policies are related to a reduction in poverty for both low-skilled young …