Why are child poverty rates higher in Britain than in Germany? a longitudinal perspective -journal article-

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

June 1, 2003

Abstract:

We analyze why child poverty rates were much higher in Britain than in Western Germany during the 1990s, using a framework focusing on poverty transition rates. Child poverty exit rates were significantly lower, and poverty entry rates significantly higher, in Britain. We decompose these cross-national differences into differences in the prevalence of “trigger events” (changes in household composition, household labor market attachment, and labor earnings), and differences in the chances of making a poverty transition conditional on experiencing a trigger event. The latter are the most important in accounting for the cross-national differences in poverty exit and entry rates.

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Journal of Human Resources

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 38, no.2, 441-465 , p.441 -465

Subject

Notes

serial sequence - indexed article

#506040

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