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children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … transfers to younger children has different poverty reduction effects between countries - depending on age composition and co … from state social protection systems compared to other agegroups. The results show that children are disproportionately …
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Children of single mothers face higher rates of poverty than children in two-parent households in practically every … poverty and, as a result, little consensus on the best way to address poverty among these children. Explanations include both … poverty. Further, while the effects of family allowance spending are similar for children in both single mother and two parent …
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lives of children and families and how governments respond to economic crises. We calculate child poverty rates before and … examine how children’s family structure affected their chances of living in poverty. We find large variations in child poverty … changes in child poverty. Within countries, we find that children in married families have the lowest risk of poverty, except …
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of its deep child poverty situation, and South Africa's assistance benefit system performs better in lifting children out …The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in … different components of household income and other resources on child deep-poverty rates to examine the role of the market and …
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state taking child poverty as case of study. I use the LIS Database and cross-nationally compare six countries: Brazil … assess in each country to what extent taxes and government transfers reduce the child poverty generated by the market. I use …: Wave VIII (2010), Wave XIX (2013) and Wave X (2016). I cross-nationally compare the relative child poverty at 40%, 50%, and …
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reduction of child poverty circa 2000. Child maintenance made a comparatively small contribution to the relief of child poverty … reduction in child poverty. The LIS analysis compares the prevalence and characteristics of lone parents, explores the … proportion of families with children receiving child maintenance, and the contribution that it made to their income and the …
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This paper is an empirical overview of inequalities of pension outcomes in six European countries, which are shaped by a variety of institutional pensions schemes. The study contrasts pension system regulation in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom; and analyses their...
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-sectional data (around 2000 - wave V and mid of 2000s - wave VI) from the Luxembourg Income Study Database to show current outcomes … affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …
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