children and childless families. Families with children, regardless of having one or two parent, had very high rates of poverty …The aim is to assess the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance. We will examine the … incidence of poverty among the recipients in relation to the general poverty profile. To answer these questions, the adequacy …

This paper investigates the real living standards and poverty status of United States children in the 1990's compared … to the children in 17 other nations, including Europe, Scandinavia, Canada and Australia. We find that American low …-income children have lower real spendable income than do comparable children in almost every other nation studied. In contrast, high …

of gender equality, the U.S. ranks above average in paid working time among dual-earner couples with no children, but …

children in large families more likely to be in poverty than children in smaller families? Aggregate and survey microdata from … Western countries. The analysis finds, not surprisingly, that children in large families are more likely to be in poverty than … allowances to larger families, the probability of children being in poverty does not increase with family size once parents …

This paper presents stylized facts about the effect of children on household disposable income and its components (the …-national differences in the impact of children on household disposable income are substantial and systematic. Speaking generally, we find … that cross-national differences in the impact of children on disposable income are determined largely by the differences in …

Past literature on the family gap - the difference in outcomes for mothers and women without children - discusses …

It is widely held that people who work have no difficulty in avoiding poverty and guaranteeing their family a decent … people, sometimes even working full time. But, previous studies have failed to consider the extent of poverty among the … active and inactive poor people. Estimating Gini indices and poverty gaps for those groups gives a different idea of the …

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 …

Recent analysis has suggested that poverty rates, and their variation across rich countries, is driven much less by the … prevalence of certain risks than by the poverty penaltyattached to the risks. Focusing on single motherhood as a poverty risk, it … condition on the major mechanisms through which poverty risks are heightened: the risk of non-employment, and of having only a …

This study set out to understand the poverty risks of single parents in the context of the rise of the dual … to 2010. There were to main findings. The first is that single parents face higher relative income poverty risks (AROP … linked to a higher standard of living in society and therefore a higher poverty threshold that fewer single parents can reach …