The dynamics of child poverty in industrialised countries
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The dynamics of child poverty in industrialised countries
Cambridge University Press, 2001
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A child poverty rate of ten percent could mean that every tenth child is always poor, or that all children are in poverty for one month in every ten. Knowing where reality lies between these extremes is vital to understanding the problem facing many countries of poverty among the young. This unique study goes beyond the standard analysis of child poverty based on poverty rates at one point in time and documents how much movement into and out of poverty by children there actually is, covering a range of industrialised countries - the USA, UK, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Hungary and Russia. Five main topics are addressed: conceptual and measurement issues associated with a dynamic view of child poverty; cross-national comparisons of child poverty rates and trends; cross-national comparisons of children's movements into and out of poverty; country-specific studies of child poverty dynamics; and the policy implications of taking a dynamic perspective.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Issues and Cross-National Evidence: 1. Beyond the snapshot: a dynamic view of child poverty Bruce Bradbury, Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright
- 2. Conceptual and measurement issues Bruce Bradbury, Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright
- 3. Child poverty across 25 countries Bruce Bradbury and Markus Jantti
- 4. The dynamics of child poverty in seven industrialised nations Bruce Bradbury, Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright
- Part II. Topics in Child Poverty Dynamics: 5. Income mobility and exits from poverty of American children Peter Gottschalk and Sheldon Danziger
- 6. Child poverty in Germany: trends and persistence Christian Schluter
- 7. Poverty among British children: chronic or transitory? Martha S. Hill and Stephen P. Jenkins
- 8. Child income poverty and deprivation dynamics in Ireland Brian Nolan, Bertrand Maitre and Dorothy Watson
- 9. Young people leaving home: the impact on poverty in Spain Olga Canto and Magda Mercader-Prats
- 10. Are children being left behind in the transition in Hungary? Peter Galasi and Gyula Nagy
- 11. Mobility and poverty dynamics among Russian children Jeni Klugman and Alexandre Kolev
- Part III. Summary and Policy Conclusions: 12. Thinking about children in time J. Lawrence Aber and David T. Ellwood.
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