this survey by the Office of the High Commissioner against Child Poverty in Spain. This Office used the Spanish version of … the survey on fields such as the design of a minimum income scheme, the evaluation of energy poverty from a child … perspective, the changing dynamics of poverty according to country of origin, or the impact of housing costs on poverty. On the …

The aim of this paper is to study the mechanisms behind poverty persistence in Spain. We examine the importance of past … poverty experiences for explaining current poverty as opposed to observed and unobserved individual heterogeneity. Our results … are based on the model proposed by Cappellari and Jenkins (J Appl Econometr 19:593–610, 2004a) that estimates poverty …

. Conventionally, child well-being is examined from the perspective of income poverty. However, numerous studies have argued that … income is just one of the defining characteristics of poverty. Furthermore, examining child well-being only through monetary … lens risk leaving behind millions of children because children are not economic agents. Despite global recognition of the …

The present article reviews poverty studies in Spanish Autonomous Communities using a new methodological approach. One … of the main concerns in those studies is poverty concentration in specific Spanish Autonomous Communities. This can be … the result of a bias due to use a unique national poverty line, since the circumstances of every family unit, specifically …

A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …

remained high. These are the findings of the present study based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. The risk-of-poverty … rate was 16.8 percent in 2015, in comparison to around 11 percent in the mid-1990s. The risk-of-poverty rate among the … migration background - those who were born in a foreign country and then migrated to Germany. The increase in the risk-of-poverty …

The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using …