Changes in the headcount rate are the standard metric for gauging how public transfers and taxes affect poverty. An … based on Luxembourg Income Study data for seventeen countries covering various years between 1969 and 1997. Poverty is …

Recent analysis has suggested that poverty rates, and their variation across rich countries, is driven much less by the … prevalence of certain risks than by the poverty penaltyattached to the risks. Focusing on single motherhood as a poverty risk, it … condition on the major mechanisms through which poverty risks are heightened: the risk of non-employment, and of having only a …

measure of the historical racial regime (HRR), and examines how HRR influences contemporary poverty and racial inequality in … with greater poverty for all and especially not among White Southerners. Rather, a higher level of HRR worsens Black … poverty and especially Black-White inequalities in poverty. Further, HRR explains a significant share of the Black …

This study set out to understand the poverty risks of single parents in the context of the rise of the dual … to 2010. There were to main findings. The first is that single parents face higher relative income poverty risks (AROP … linked to a higher standard of living in society and therefore a higher poverty threshold that fewer single parents can reach …

This article introduces fiscal impoverishment as a novel framework for comparative poverty research. We invert standard … analyses of welfare state policy and household poverty by focusing not on poverty alleviation but poverty creation and … finance the public sector serve to push households (further) into poverty. We estimate that across rich democracies on average …

This study compares poverty among older adults in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan with that in selected Western … societies and explores factors contributing to these high levels of poverty among older adults from a comparative perspective …. Lower education levels of older people contribute to high poverty among East Asian older people while multigenerational …

This research investigates how the poverty risk of young people changes according to their living arrangements by … youth living with their parents leads to low youth poverty in the region. However, the poverty rate among young East Asian … support from their parents transitioned to independence more quickly than their peers, and lowered the associated poverty risk …

The starting point in the paper is the relative concept of poverty. We will study how our picture of poverty will … change if we accept a very relative concept of poverty. The first problem we encountered was the selection of the benchmark …. A couple of alternative ways to conduct relativizations were selected. First, we applied the conventional poverty …

policies on their poverty levels. Specifically, the paper conducts multi-level regression analyses across 18 OECD countries … decrease in poverty levels among the low skilled. The negative effect of passive labor market policies (PLMP) on poverty is … only significant for the older male group. Family policies are related to a reduction in poverty for both low-skilled young …