genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non-poverty …

Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of "poverty and inequality" and the …

This paper reviews research about the intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries. In order … to make our survey manageable, we restrict attention to studies that consider the relationship between parental poverty …, and that this impact is not wholly explained by other factors that are themselves correlated with childhood poverty. At …

This paper discusses how household panel surveys can be informative about the intergenerational transmission of poverty … have been used to examine the intergenerational transmission of poverty when using household panel surveys. Finally, we … requirements for analysis of the intergenerational transmission of poverty. …

We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British … Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty … persistence is greater, and poverty exit rates in particular are lower. In both countries poverty is particularly persistent among …

This paper compares child poverty dynamics cross-nationally using panel data from seven nations: the USA, Britain …, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Hungary and Russia. As well as using standard relative poverty definitions the paper examines flows … patterns of income mobility and poverty dynamics across the seven countries. The key exception is Russia, where the economic …

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or … across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …