Recent results on poverty in Europe show that households with children have a higher incidence of poverty than … households without children. This incidence is not only higher but increasing. The literature on poverty has noted that the … and labour market events in helping households with and without children in leaving a poverty situation decomposing the …

We focus on the statics and dynamics of poverty in Spain using data from the first eight waves of the European … pattern of poverty changes noted by other authors for the early nineteen-nineties. After this period poverty reduces slightly …

shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …

revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality … primary, secondary and tertiary education programs for the children, the transfer expenditure would decrease and the tax bases …

We examine the sensitivity of poverty comparisons across countries with dissimilar household needs when equivalence … scale parameters are varied. We use a sample of Spanish and British households, using both absolute and relative poverty …

In this article, we propose to calculate the size of the population living in poverty, measured through uni- and … multidimensional poverty indices, and the Gini coefficient using extended full (time plus money and informal earnings) incomes, from …-free estimate of the size of the population living in poverty and the Gini ratio overall. To show the effect informal activities …

reveal specific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are most susceptible to be vulnerable to shocks …