The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries

by Edited by Bruce Bradbury , Stephen P. Jenkins , John Micklewright

• ISBN13: 9780521004923
• ISBN10: 0521004926
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 study goes beyond the standard analysis of child poverty based on poverty rates at one point in time and documents how much movement into and out of poverty by children there actually is, covering a range of industrialised countries - the USA, UK, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Hungary and Russia. Five main topics are addressed: conceptual and measurement issues associated with a dynamic view of child poverty; cross-national comparisons of child poverty rates and trends; cross-national comparisons of children's movements into and out of poverty; country-specific studies of child poverty dynamics; and the policy implications of taking a dynamic perspective.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
List of tables	xi
Notes on the contributors	xiv
Acknowledgements	xvii
Beyond the snapshot: a dynamic view of child poverty	1	(26)
Bruce Bradbury
Stephen P. Jenkins
John Micklewright
Part I Issues and cross-national evidence
Conceptual and measurement issues	27	(35)
Bruce Bradbury
Stephen P. Jenkins
John Micklewright
Child poverty across twenty-five countries	62	(30)
Bruce Bradbury
Markus Jantti
The dynamics of child poverty in seven industrialised nations	92	(43)
Bruce Bradbury
Stephen P. Jenkins
John Micklewright
Part II Topics in child poverty dynamics
Income mobility and exits from poverty of American children	135	(19)
Peter Gottschalk
Sheldon Danziger
Child poverty in Germany: trends and persistence	154	(20)
Christian Schluter
Poverty among British children: chronic or transitory?	174	(22)
Martha S. Hill
Stephen P. Jenkins
Child income poverty and deprivation dynamics in Ireland	196	(19)
Brian Nolan
Bertrand Maitre
Dorothy Watson
Young people leaving home: the impact on poverty in Spain	215	(21)
Olga Canto
Magda Mercader-Prats
Are children being left behind in the transition in Hungary?	236	(18)
Peter Galasi
Gyula Nagy
Mobility and poverty dynamics among Russian children	254	(27)
Jeni Klugman
Alexandre Kolev
Summary and policy conclusions
Thinking about children in time	281	(20)
J. Lawrence Aber
David T. Ellwood
Index of authors	301	(3)
Index by subject	304