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 …

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 …

Although the working poor are a much larger population than the unemployed poor, American poverty research has devoted … much more attention to joblessness than to working poverty. Research that does exist on working poverty concentrates on …, and states as polities, we examine the influence of a potentially important labor market institution for working poverty …

poverty. Using the Luxembourg Income Study, we conduct a multilevel analysis of working-aged adult poverty across 18 affluent … Western democracies. Our index of welfare generosity has a negative effect on poverty net of individual characteristics and … structural context. For each standard deviation increase in welfare generosity, the odds of poverty decline by a factor of 2 …