The dynamics of child poverty in industrialised countries
A child poverty rate of ten percent could mean that every tenth child is always poor, or that all children are in poverty for one month in every ten. Knowing where reality lies between these extremes is vital to understanding the problem facing many countries of poverty among the young. This unique...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2001.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Beyond the snapshot: a dynamic view of child poverty / Bruce Bradbury, Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright
- Part I. Issues and cross-national evidence
- Conceptual and measurement issues / Bruce Bradbury, Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright
- Child poverty across twenty-five countries / Bruce Bradbury and Markus Jäntti
- Dynamics of child poverty in seven industrialised nations / Bruce Bradbury, Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright
- Part II. Topics in child poverty dynamics
- Income mobility and exits from poverty of American children / Peter Gottschalk and Sheldon Danziger
- Child poverty in Germany: trends and persistence / Christian Schulter
- Poverty among British children: chronic or transitory? / Martha S. Hill and Stephen P. Jenkins
- Child income poverty and deprivation dynamics in Ireland / Brian Nolan, Bertrand Maître and Dorothy Watson
- Young people leaving home: the impact on poverty in Spain / Olga Cantó and Magda Mercader-Prats
- Are children being left behind in the transition in Hungary? / Péter Galasi and Gyula Nagy
- Mobility and poverty dynamics among Russian children / Jeni Klugman and Alexandre Kolev
- Summary and policy conclusions
- Thinking about children in time / J. Lawrence Aber and David T. Ellwood.
