platform, we evaluate the poverty and distributive effects on children of various reform (benefit and employment) strategies …

the national level, the local level is in focus to illuminate differences between municipalities. Studies on poverty are … no exception. The regional level contains a lot of information which is needed to understand the dynamics of poverty …. Without this information it is difficult to fight or mitigate poverty. The previous research focusing on i) regional aspects …

half of immigrant workers earned less than twice the minimum wage. These hard working individuals are living in poverty …. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) lifts almost 20 million low-income working individuals out of poverty every year …

. Rather child poverty has followed the usual fluctuations of the business cycle. We show that the relative stability in child … poverty rates in the face of declining labor market earnings is a result of two factors. First, the decline in market income … has been swamped by other changes in family patterns and labor market behavior that have reduced the risk of child poverty …

poverty and the absence of public resources for sustaining households' incomes. Between 1990 and 2005 in Albania 21.7% of …

poverty and the absence of public resources for sustaining households’ incomes. Between 1990 and 2005 in Albania 21.7% of …