Considerable attention focuses on the risks of poverty, defined as individual-level labor market and family … poverty in terms of prevalences (share of the population with a risk) and penalties (increased probability of poverty … to the U.S. We show that prevalences cannot explain high U.S. poverty as the U.S. has below average prevalences. Rather …

social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme … average share of household income from welfare transfers), low-income targeting, and universalism - and poverty and … developed and developing countries. Consistent with Korpi and Palme, we show: a) poverty is negatively associated with the …

when a number of indicators are used. One of the aspects analysed are outcomes, i.e. the prevalence of poverty and the … poverty reduction effectiveness. To analyse outcomes the LIS data are used. Six different countries are included into … comparison. The findings show that the countries vary to a large extent in their effectiveness of reducing poverty. Further, they …

Despite its centrality to contemporary inequality, working poverty is often popularly discussed but rarely studied by … circa 2000. We demonstrate that working poverty does not simply mirror overall poverty and that there is greater cross …-national variation in working than overall poverty. We then examine four explanations for working poverty: demographic characteristics …

poverty with a multi-level analysis across 18 affluent democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all … countries, there is even more cross-national variation in single mother poverty than for poverty among the overall population …. By far, the U.S. has the highest rate of poverty among single mothers. The analyses show that single mother poverty is a …