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This study investigates the macro (structural and institutional) factors influencing working poverty by comparing among … from eligible two-parent households. The supply-side prescription of a mixed capitalist economy produced marginal poverty … alleviation. As a result, working poverty has become a pronounced social problem in many developed capitalist countries in recent …
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There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure … poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …
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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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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 …
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affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …
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amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by … maternal education, but only when both the educational gradient of single motherhood and the child poverty gap by single …
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the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …
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Family 500 +) on inequality and poverty. The analysis is based on micro-level household data from the Luxembourg Income Study … (LIS) and Statistics Poland. We examine the changes in various indicators of inequality and poverty (Gini index, subjective … and relative poverty rates) and their decomposition. We find evidence that the program substantially reduces inequality …
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of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations … address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …
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This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the...
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