Wie sprechen wir über Armut? Was wissen wir über Armut? Wie bearbeiten wir Armut? Das Handbuch liefert Antworten auf diese Fragen und bietet sowohl Überblick als auch Detailinformation. Es richtet sich an Studierende und Lehrende der Sozialwissenschaften, aber auch an PraktikerInnen aus der...

Focusing on the past decade, this review considers advances in the qualitative study of working poverty, welfare reform, patterns of family formation, neighborhood effects, class-based patterns of childhood socialization, and the growing European literature on social exclusion. We highlight the...

In this paper we make use of the Irish component of the European Union Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey for 2004 in order to develop a measure of consistent poverty that overcomes some of the difficulties associated with the original indicators employed as...