Recent studies suggest that migrants may be less satisfied with their "new" lives than members of the host population …

This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle …. Overall, the cross-national variation in the disposable income of disadvantaged children is comprised equally of variation in …

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 … multidimensional poverty literature. The Alkire-Foster methodology provides a natural extension to the Europe 2020 indicator, which can …

of its deep child poverty situation, and South Africa's assistance benefit system performs better in lifting children out …The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in … different components of household income and other resources on child deep-poverty rates to examine the role of the market and …

poverty among all households and among those with children, and using multiple poverty measures (relative and absolute, pre …This paper draws on the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) microdata to paint a portrait of child poverty across a diverse … group of countries, as of 2004-2006. We will first synthesize past LIS-based research on child poverty, focusing on studies …

This paper compares the educational performance of the children of immigrants to the children in their parents' home …. Controlling for family background, I find that the children of immigrants in Germany perform better than peers in every origin …