well below the EU at-risk-of-poverty thresholds in many countries. Single earners with dependent children are especially at … risk of poverty. We discuss the options for making progress. …

dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock … analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately understood as a dynamic, with the majority of people flowing in and out … of poverty for short durations. Distinguishing between structural and transitory poverty gives rise to a focus on the …

Programs to fight poverty aim at allowing individuals to support themselves ex-post, when they are not part of the …

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce … substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … changes between higher- and lower-poverty regions. Conditional on country-day fixed effects, shelter-in-place orders decrease …

entitlements between people who were in "standard" and "non-standard" employment prior to joblessness. Results show that, prior to … Korea, job losers with prior standard employment were nearly twice as likely to receive income support as otherwise similar …

to further alleviate poverty and as a complement to the Social Protection Card (KPS). Drawing upon administrative data …

implications for strategies aimed at combining economic growth and employment with making serious inroads into poverty. We conclude … recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the …

This paper examines the impact of micro-credit on employment. Household-level data was collected, following a quasi … employment away from employment-for-pay to self-employment. Therefore, the effect on total employment is ambiguous. OLS and fixed … effects regression are used to examine separately self-employment and employment-for-pay between three groups of borrowers …