I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades …; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and … the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions. I follow in the footsteps of a giant - my perspectives are …

This paper evaluates the impact of a large macroeconomic shock on poverty. In particular, we use longitudinal data from … countries in order to quantify changes in poverty transition patterns caused by the 2007 global financial crisis. Because the … substantial macroeconomic shock on poverty. Employing semiparametric mixed discrete time survival analysis, we find that …

Dual or multiple earnership has been considered an important factor to prevent in-work poverty. The aim of this paper … is to quantify the impact of second earnership on the risk of in-work poverty and the role of the tax-benefit systems in … in preventing in-work poverty. This is done by simulating a counterfactual scenario where second earners become …

determinants of intergenerational income mobility and the relative risk of poverty differ with respect to the existing welfare … the relative risk of poverty. …

long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal …) longitudinal poverty. The results reveal considerable differences across EU countries regarding both the level and the structure of … the population at high risk of chronic material deprivation and longitudinal poverty. Finally, each country's population …

This paper analyses poverty persistence in Italy and compares it with France, Greece, Portugal, Spain and the United … Kingdom, focusing on its dynamics through the analysis of transitions into and out of poverty and the econometric …-2012. Descriptive statistics and transition matrices reveal that households in Italy are characterised by a higher degree of poverty …

tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place … between agents on both sides of the poverty line provided they have the same labor time. This requirement is combined with … yields the following evaluation criterion: tax schemes should minimize the labor time required to reach the poverty line. We …

In work-poverty has become a pressing social issue in Europe. The self-employed remain relatively uncharted terrain in … this paper provides a systematic mapping exercise of poverty and living standards among the self-employed in the European … Union. We find that the self-employed in Europe generally face significantly higher income poverty risks than contracted …

We analyze poverty dynamics in Europe for the periods 1994‐2001 and 2005‐2008 using, respectively, the data of the ECHP … and the EU‐SILC. We focus on poverty profiles depicting poverty duration, recurrence and persistence and, then, on the … trigger events (income, demographic, labour market) associated with movements into and out of poverty, using a modified …

long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal …) longitudinal poverty. The results reveal considerable differences across EU countries regarding both the level and the structure of … the population at high risk of chronic material deprivation and longitudinal poverty. Finally, each country's population …