exclusion can be estimated by establishing how common or deep poverty is among the employed and the unemployed. This is the … respect. The fact that poverty is equally common or rare among the unemployed and the employed can be due to many factors …. Small differences may be due to income transfers that effectively combat poverty even in the absence of income from work. On …

Although the poverty rates among solo mothers vary a lot between countries there is one common feature: solo mothers … perform worse in terms of financial resources compared to married or cohabiting mothers. Even in countries with low poverty …. It is interesting to ask the question why? Again referring to a cross national setting we see that poverty rates vary …

allow children to escape from poverty? This is the question we try to answer in this comparative study. The objective is … therefore not so much to carry out a diagnosis of the financial poverty of children as to evaluate the effect, in terms of …

security, poverty and social exclusion have not been eradicated. The persistence of income poverty in industrialized welfare … states casts serious doubt on the effectiveness of social security schemes in alleviating poverty. This paper explores the … poverty-alleviating power of social security in a comparative perspective on the basis of house-hold micro-data from the …

We analyze the impact of the state on the incidence of poverty in the working-age population of 14 advanced capitalist … democracies between 1970 and 1997 using an unbalanced panel design. We utilize poverty measures based on micro-level data from the … that economic factors including de-industrialization and unemployment largely explain pre-tax, pre-transfer poverty rates …

Substantial cross-national differences in poverty alleviation are well documented, but theextent to which different …-targeted provisions and means-tested benefits reduce relative economic poverty in different institutional settings. It is shown that the … poverty alleviation across countries. The study also presents a new method for estimating the anti-poverty effects of separate …

In the EU there is growing concern about poverty among children, and among families with children. In most OECD … countries, income poverty among children now exceeds that among the elderly, who traditionally were the demographic group most … at risk of poverty (Jäntti and Danziger, 2000). However, the policy response of most industrialized countries in the past …

This study attempts to introduce a new method to measure relative income poverty. The aim is to find a solution which … will combine information both on the depth of poverty and the quantity of the poor, i.e. the number of people living in … poverty. Furthermore, a yardstick is sought which would be relatively simple and easy to understand, as these properties would …

poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

poverty. Using the Luxembourg Income Study, we conduct a multilevel analysis of working-aged adult poverty across 18 affluent … Western democracies. Our index of welfare generosity has a negative effect on poverty net of individual characteristics and … structural context. For each standard deviation increase in welfare generosity, the odds of poverty decline by a factor of 2 …