We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British … Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty … persistence is greater, and poverty exit rates in particular are lower. In both countries poverty is particularly persistent among …

genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non-poverty …

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or … across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non-poverty …

A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive 'synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics …

A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive 'synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics …

A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive "synthetic panel" data estimates of poverty dynamics …

genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non-poverty …