potentially vulnerable group of the population: their poverty can affect human capital accumulation and have long lasting effects … document that the poverty rates of these two age groups with respect to the other components of the population differ … considerably across European countries. These differences are largely due to the different anti-poverty effectiveness of national …

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 …