This paper reviews research about the intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries. In order … to make our survey manageable, we restrict attention to studies that consider the relationship between parental poverty …-life chances, and that this impact is not wholly explained by other factors that are themselves correlated with childhood poverty …

-thirds societies" in which two-thirds enjoy the benefits of affluence, while one-third are locked into poverty or near-poverty. This … finding is that poverty (defined as receiving less than half of average net household equivalent income) is mostly short term … and that nothing like one-third are locked into poverty On the other hand, far more people than had previously been …

This study examines the dynamics of poverty for four OECD countries (Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United … States). It provides information on patterns of poverty, which groups stay in poverty the longest, and household …/individual characteristics and life-course events which appear to be most closely associated with transitions into and out of poverty and the …