Eine steuerliche Besserstellung von Alleinerziehenden streben in ihren Anträgen im schleswig-holsteinischen Landtag sowohl CDU und Grüne als auch FDP an. Gleichzeitig ist dieses Ziel auch im Koalitionsvertrag zwischen Union und SPD auf Bundesebene verankert, wonach eine Anhebung oder...

Child poverty is of growing concern in Ireland and internationally due to the growing body of evidence on the detrimental effects of childhood socio-economic disadvantage on children, both in the short term and in the long term through loss of education, earnings and health. In Ireland, child...

This paper assesses the impact of the Agrarian Unemployment Benefit (AUB), a regionally targeted income support scheme introduced in Andalucía, Spain, in 1984. At its peak, the program covered more than 10% of the regional labour force, making it one of the most extensive welfare measures of...

Utilising the EU-SILC modules 2009, 2014, and 2021, this note analyses child-specific material deprivation in the EU Member States. Besides the statistics on the most frequently lacked items, the child-specific material deprivation intensity (i.e., the number of lacked items) and the...

In a cross-border context, it is possible that the entitlement to family benefits arises in more than one Member State. Therefore, the Regulations on the coordination of social security systems lay down priority rules to define the 'primarily competent Member State' which is obliged to provide...