Child Poverty Dynamics and Income Mobility in Europe

Publication date: 2016_16
Publication series:
Innocenti Working Papers
No. of pages: 34
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Abstract
While a long-standing literature analyses
cross-country variation in the incidence of child poverty in rich countries in
a single year, less is known about children’s individual movements into and out
of low household income over a period of time. Using
longitudinal data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living
Conditions (EU-SILC), the present study addresses this gap by analysing both income mobility and child poverty dynamics
in the EU during the recent economic crisis. It finds that income growth among
children has been generally pro-poor but not sufficiently so to put a
brake on the increasing income inequality. There is substantial heterogeneity
among the EU-SILC countries in the rates of child poverty entry and exit.
Scandinavian countries tend to combine lower exit and entry rates, while
Southern and Eastern European countries tend to have higher rates of both
poverty exit and entry.
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