them? And third, what impact do measures of public resources for children have on child poverty rates? …The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children …, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal …

Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income … satisfaction to construct an evidence-based poverty line. The poverty line is identified by using its assumed unique property to …-Economic Panel yields a temporally stable poverty line similar to the definition provided by the Statistical Office of the European …

The persistent at-risk-of-poverty rate is one of the EU's 11 primary indicators of social inclusion but it has received … little attention compared to the current at-risk-of-poverty rate. Using the 2008 EU Statistics on Income and Living … Conditions (EU-SILC) database, we compare persistent income poverty rates across European nations and examine differences in …

The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …

The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …

Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income … satisfaction to construct an evidence-based poverty line. The poverty line is identified by using its assumed unique property to …-Economic Panel yields a temporally stable poverty line similar to the definition provided by the Statistical Office of the European …

So far the dynamics of income poverty in European countries has been analysed in a comparative perspective using the … the “new” EU member states. Being the time span covered by EU-SILC too short for carrying out survival analysis on poverty … duration and recurrence, in this paper we focus on income poverty mobility only, identifying and analysing which are the main …

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 …

paper, these adjusted measures are used to analyse the multidimensional poverty profiles of immigrant households in Spain …The European 2020 Strategy has launched a novel indicator for monitoring poverty reduction over the current decade … poverty and social exclusion among immigrants. It is argued that the analytical insight and internal consistency of the new …

micro-oriented literature, known as 'pro-poor growth', seeks in particular to understand the impact of growth on poverty … poverty transiency. Several decompositions are proposed to measure the importance of each of these impacts of growth on the …