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 …

The standard poverty lines applied in empirical research tend to be problematic in terms of validity, reliability, ease … related to actual differences in the 'production of poverty' in 11 countries, as measured by the generalised budget approach … substantially higher degree of poverty than representatives of the corporatist type (Belgium, Germany, France). Poverty in the …

, pensioners are compared on their poverty rates and inequality. The redistribution paradox states that poverty will be the highest …) poverty rates are much higher than in the Netherlands (universal minimum pension). Poverty rates are higher for elderly women … inequality in income is higher for men than for women both in Belgium and in the Netherlands. In order to minimize poverty and …

measure of the historical racial regime (HRR), and examines how HRR influences contemporary poverty and racial inequality in … with greater poverty for all and especially not among White Southerners. Rather, a higher level of HRR worsens Black … poverty and especially Black-White inequalities in poverty. Further, HRR explains a significant share of the Black …

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 …

This article introduces fiscal impoverishment as a novel framework for comparative poverty research. We invert standard … analyses of welfare state policy and household poverty by focusing not on poverty alleviation but poverty creation and … finance the public sector serve to push households (further) into poverty. We estimate that across rich democracies on average …

This study compares poverty among older adults in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan with that in selected Western … societies and explores factors contributing to these high levels of poverty among older adults from a comparative perspective …. Lower education levels of older people contribute to high poverty among East Asian older people while multigenerational …

This research investigates how the poverty risk of young people changes according to their living arrangements by … youth living with their parents leads to low youth poverty in the region. However, the poverty rate among young East Asian … support from their parents transitioned to independence more quickly than their peers, and lowered the associated poverty risk …