Innocenti Working Papers Trends in Child Well-being in EU Countries during the Great Recession: A cross-country comparative perspective AUTHOR(S) Luisa Natali; Bruno Martorano; Sudhanshu Handa; Goran Holmqvist; Yekaterina Chzhen Published: 2014 Innocenti Working Papers This paper reports on how children have fared during the period of the global economic crisis (Great Recession) in rich European countries. The authors provide a descriptive overview of the evolution in a series of child well-being indicators over time (2007/8-2012/3 ) in 32 countries (the EU-28 plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey). The focus is on key child and adolescent outcome indicators that are expected to have been affected by the crisis and its related real-economy effects in the short and medium-term, including child monetary poverty and material deprivation, subjective well-being, and transition to adulthood (including education and employment). Countries’ performances are compared and ranked according to the change they experienced in these indicators over the period under analysis. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 56 | Thematic area: Child Poverty, Economic Development, Social Policies | Tags: child well-being, economic crisis, european union, labour market, monetary policy × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Luisa Natali; Bruno Martorano; Sudhanshu Handa; Goran Holmqvist; Yekaterina Chzhen 2014 Trends in Child Well-being in EU Countries during the Great Recession: A cross-country comparative perspective. , pp. 56.
Innocenti Working Papers Young People (not) in the Labour Market in Rich Countries during the Great Recession AUTHOR(S) Yekaterina Chzhen; Dominic Richardson Published: 2014 Innocenti Working Papers The global financial crisis of 2007/2008 spilled over into the real economy reducing demand for labour and increasing unemployment. Young people were hit hard, with record numbers of 15-24-year-olds out of work and many of them not in education, employment or training (NEET). More than five years since the outbreak of the financial crisis, the economic recovery remains weak and uneven. The study documents a substantial worsening in the youth labour market situation during the Great Recession across the EU and/or OECD, particularly in countries that suffered greater falls in economic output per capita. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 34 | Thematic area: Economic Development, Social Policies | Tags: european union, temporary employment, unemployment, youth × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Yekaterina Chzhen; Dominic Richardson 2014 Young People (not) in the Labour Market in Rich Countries during the Great Recession. , pp. 34.
Innocenti Report Card Medición de la pobreza infantil: Nuevas tablas clasificatorias de la pobreza infantil en los países ricos del mundo AUTHOR(S) Peter Adamson Published: 2012 Innocenti Report Card Los informes anteriores de esta serie han demostrado que no proteger a los niños de la pobreza es uno de los errores más costosos que puede cometer una sociedad. Son los propios niños quienes asumen el mayor de todos los costos, pero también sus países deben pagar un muy alto precio por su error: menor nivel de competencias y productividad, menor nivel de logros en materia de salud y educación, mayor probabilidad de desempleo y dependencia de la seguridad social, mayor costo de los sistemas de protección judicial y social, y pérdida de cohesión social. En el presente informe se incluyen los datos más recientes comparables a nivel internacional sobre privación infantil y pobreza infantil relativa. Tomadas en su conjunto, estas dos medidas diferentes ofrecen el mejor panorama disponible actualmente sobre la pobreza infantil en las naciones más ricas del mundo. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 36 | Thematic area: Child Poverty, Industrialized Countries, Social Policies | Tags: child poverty, economic analysis, economic and social conditions, european union, oecd, poverty, poverty reduction × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Peter Adamson 2012 Medición de la pobreza infantil: Nuevas tablas clasificatorias de la pobreza infantil en los países ricos del mundo. , pp. 36.
Innocenti Report Card Measuring Child Poverty: New league tables of child poverty in the world's rich countries AUTHOR(S) Peter Adamson Published: 2012 Innocenti Report Card Report Card 10 considers two views of child poverty in the world’s advanced economies: a measure of absolute deprivation, and a measure of relative poverty. The first measure is a 14-item Child Deprivation Index that represents a significant new development in international monitoring, drawing on data from the European Union’s Statistics on Incomes and Living Conditions survey of 125,000 households in 31 European countries, which has included a section on children for the first time. Children were considered 'deprived' if they lacked two or more of the items, which ranged from three meals a day, to an Internet connection. The second measure covers the EU and an additional six OECD countries (Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United States) and examines the percentage of children living below their national 'poverty line' - defined as 50 per cent of median disposable household income. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 36 | Thematic area: Child Poverty, Industrialized Countries, Social Policies | Tags: child poverty, econometric analysis, economic and social conditions, european union, oecd, poverty, poverty reduction × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Peter Adamson 2012 Measuring Child Poverty: New league tables of child poverty in the world's rich countries. , pp. 36.
Innocenti Working Papers Child Well-Being in the EU and Enlargement to the East AUTHOR(S) Kitty Stewart; John Micklewright Published: 2000 Innocenti Working Papers The accession of up to 13 new members in the next decade is the most important development now facing the European Union. This paper analyses measurable differences in the well-being of children between current club members, the EU Member States, and the 10 Central and Eastern European applicants seeking admission. Two themes are used as a framework for the paper. First, the importance of economic, social and cultural rights in the human rights dimension of the 'Copenhagen criteria' laid down for EU accession. Second, the need for a wider approach to measuring differences in living standards and 'economic and social cohesion' within the Union than that currently taken by the European Commission. In both cases the necessity for considering the position of children is emphasised. The empirical sections of the paper then consider in turn three dimensions of well-being of European children in Member States and the applicant countries: their economic welfare, their health, and their education. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 32 | Thematic area: Industrialized Countries | Tags: child education, child health, child welfare, comparative analysis, european union, human rights, standard of living, standards of care | Publisher: Innocenti Research Centre × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Kitty Stewart; John Micklewright 2000 Child Well-Being in the EU and Enlargement to the East. , pp. 32.