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younger children, who, on the other hand, seem to be less vulnerable to poverty than older children in Spain. … increased social protection expenditure aimed at families and children in Spain as a whole along the last decade (one of the … lowest in the EU). So far, however, little is known about their impact on child poverty in Spain. Making use of the tax …
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shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …
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revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality … primary, secondary and tertiary education programs for the children, the transfer expenditure would decrease and the tax bases …
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This paper analyses the duration of child poverty in Germany. In our sample, we observe the entire income history from … the individuals? birth to their coming of age at age 18.Therefore we are able to analyze dynamics in and out of poverty … for the entire population of children, whether they become poor at least once or not. Using duration models,we allow …
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This paper analyses the duration of child poverty in Germany. In our sample, we observe the entire income history from … the individuals' birth to their coming of age at age 18. Therefor we are able to analyze dynamics in and out of poverty … for the entire population of children, wether they become poor at least once or not. Using duration models, we allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298189
family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain …The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State … in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to poor families with children are often …
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In this paper, we evaluate income distributions in four European countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and Hungary) using … consistent results, in terms of both inequality measures and poverty rates. To the extent that the results differ, we explore the …
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children and analyse its impact on household incomes and child poverty for 19 countries. We find that the conventional approach …The paper focuses on the support given through tax and benefit systems to families with children and addresses how the … usually measured in rather narrow terms by adding up the benefits explicitly labelled as being for children, we adopt a more …
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The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ?Poverty? is interpreted broadly and hence the …
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them? And third, what impact do measures of public resources for children have on child poverty rates? …The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children …, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267303