The Dynamics of Child Poverty

Britain and Germany Compared

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ID3018948
AuthorsStephen P Jenkins (0000-0002-8305-9774, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK, DIW Berlin, CHILD Turin, and IZA Bonn), Christian Schluter (University of Bristol, 8 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TN, UK), Gertg Wagner (DIW Berlin, Koenigin Luise Strasse, 14191 Berlin, Germany)
Year2003
Volume34
Issue3
Pages337-355
Publication date2003-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jcfs.34.3.337
OpenAlexW1575149322
LanguageEN
Citations received12

We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Western Germany using data from the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-97. In Britain poverty persistence was greater, and poverty exit rates in particular were lower, than in Western Germany. In both countries, poverty was particularly persistent among children in lone parent households and households with a non-working head. Events such as family formation and dissolution, and changes in household Jabour market attachment, were associated with child poverty transitions in the direction expected, and in both countries. However a large fraction of the observed poverty transitions were not accounted for by these events. By contrast, changes in labour earnings not necessarily associated with a job change accounted for a large proportion of poverty transitions

Child poverty · Demographic economics · Development economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · German · Panel data · Panel Study of Income Dynamics · Poverty · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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