In this study, we examined to what extent family policies differently affect poverty among single-parent households and …, family policies reduced poverty to a greater extent among single-parent households. Paid leave more effectively facilitated … the employment of single parents, thereby reducing their poverty more than among two-parent households. Family allowances …

The objective of this paper is to distinguish between different types of working poverty, on the basis of the … mechanisms that produce it. Whereas the poverty literature identifies a myriad of risk factors and of categories of disadvantaged … workers, we focus on three immediate causes of working poverty, namely low wage rate, weak labour force attachment, and high …

other women on three outcomes labor force participation rates, wage rates, and poverty rates, analyzing the effects of … motherhood and marital status on labor force participation rates, annual earnings, and poverty rates. After analyzing these …

Japan, a larger extent of income inequality is manifest particularly among households with young children. The poverty rate …

Childhood in an underdeveloped environment is a stage of life very likely to be overshadowed by poverty. The main aim … of this study is to look at the development of child poverty in the comparative angle. The study seeks to detect … connections between child poverty and the implemented family policies. Discussion include an overview of family policies in …

The purpose of the paper is to find out what kind of impact different structural factors have on the one hand, poverty … we look at the impact of structural factors on poverty, we find out the difference between demographic variables used …: the rate of under 15 years old increases poverty, while the rate of persons 65 years and older decreases it. If the …

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 …

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 …