-parent-families differ according to poverty-risks and claiming of social benefits. The following paper examines mothers’ duration of … presence of two adults in the household. -- poverty ; unemployment benefit ; duration analysis …

When empirically measuring poverty, there are various decisions to be made, which might have considerable implications … distinction between the different stages of poverty measurement: measuring living standards, defining the poverty threshold, and … constructing aggregate poverty measures. For each of these stages, an overview of the most important approaches and choices will be …

poverty. We will compare the risk of several recipient subgroups to become poor in comparison to that observed for the general … about half of them are also in consumption poverty. …

poverty rate. To obtain unbiased estimates, we propose a two stage imputation strategy that estimates the posterior …

income tax or a consumption tax. The model simulates the impacts of the reforms on household income, poverty and labour … supply. We find that improvements in the means-tested child benefit are well-targeted: They provide a high level of poverty … form of improved poverty reduction. …

, the concept of resilience proves to be useful and transferable into poverty and social policy research under certain …