We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or … across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

This paper reviews research about the intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries. In order … to make our survey manageable, we restrict attention to studies that consider the relationship between parental poverty …, and that this impact is not wholly explained by other factors that are themselves correlated with childhood poverty. At …

This paper discusses how household panel surveys can be informative about the intergenerational transmission of poverty … have been used to examine the intergenerational transmission of poverty when using household panel surveys. Finally, we … requirements for analysis of the intergenerational transmission of poverty. …

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or … across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

This paper reviews research about the intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries. In order … to make our survey manageable, we restrict attention to studies that consider the relationship between parental poverty …-life chances, and that this impact is not wholly explained by other factors that are themselves correlated with childhood poverty …

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of …s (when income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Second, we contrast the … US experience with that of Western Germany, where there was a much smaller rise in inequality. This is accounted for by …

The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and … surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the ways in …

A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive ‘synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics …

A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive 'synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics …

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 …