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 …

Minimum Income (MI) schemes are essential to alleviate poverty and guarantee a last-resort safety net to households … with insufficient resources. Assessing the effectiveness of MI schemes in poverty reduction is challenging. Studies based … their degree of coverage and adequacy, their poverty-alleviating effects and their overall cost. Finally, we explore the …

individual takes up social assistance increases with the expected benefit amount and duration, and falls with application cost …

individual takes up social assistance increases with the expected benefit amount and duration, and falls with application cost …

Previous research has shown that economic growth should help to reduce the rate of poverty. However, a number of recent … studies find that the economic expansion of the 1980's had no statistically significant effect on aggregate poverty. We show … that a Fourier approximation provides a better empirical model of poverty than the standard linear model. It is noteworthy …

.S. government poverty statistics to create a new time series of Sen indices of poverty. The effects of growth and other determinants … of aggregate poverty are investigated over the period 1961-1996. The results indicate that economic growth affects the … Sen index and official poverty headcounts in essentially the same manner across time. The long economic expansion …

Exposure to childhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers conflicting … accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of the intergenerational persistence of poverty and the mechanisms through … which it is channeled. This study investigates differences in intergenerational poverty in the United States (U …

This paper analyzes the persistence of poverty in Sweden using a hazard rate model based on multiple spells. The model … representative Swedish panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains precise information on household … disposable income obtained from individual tax files. Poverty is defined using information on annual minimum needs standards …

estimation and inference. Using these methods and data from the British Household Panel Survey, we study individual income growth … growth ; income mobility ; mobility profile ; British Household Panel Survey …

genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non-poverty …