children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …

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 … market activity affect child poverty generally in the expected way. Taking advantage of the longitudinal data at the country …

economic exclusion of immigrants, conceptualized not as labor market outcomes but as relative poverty. This study examines the … relationship between welfare generosity and immigrant poverty across rich western democracies and compares this relationship with … that of native poverty. One publicly held belief is that immigrants disproportionately benefit from welfare generosity …

development: to what extent does targeting and size of social transfers matter for poverty? Using multilevel logistic regression … explanatory value for cross-country differences in poverty than the degree of targeting of transfer income. The results are …

risks. Poverty has for several centuries been seen as a key social risk factor in these respects. Consequently, the fight … against poverty has historically been at the forefront of public health and social policy. The relation between relative … poverty rates and population health indicators is less self-evident, notwithstanding the obvious relation to the debated topic …

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 …

social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme … average share of household income from welfare transfers), low-income targeting, and universalism - and poverty and … developed and developing countries. Consistent with Korpi and Palme, we show: a) poverty is negatively associated with the …