Child Poverty Dynamics in Seven Nations. Innocenti Research Papers #78

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The paper compares child poverty dynamics cross-nationally using
panel data from seven nations: the USA, Britain, Germany,
Ireland, Spain, Hungary and Russia. As well as using standard
relative poverty definitions the paper examines flows into and out
of the poorest fith of the children's income distribution. Significant
(but not total) uniformity in panels of income mobility and poverty
dynamics across the seven countries is found. The key exception
is Russia, where the economic transition has led to a much higher
degree of mobility. Interestingly, the US, which has the highest
level of relative poverty among the rich nations, has a mobility
rate which, if anything, is less than that of the other nations.
Owner: Bruce Bradley, Stephen Jenkins and John Micklewright

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UNICEF Office of Research
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