This paper critically analyses the views of poverty adopted by different economic schools of
thought which are relevant to the UK, as well as eclectic theories focused on social …

Most information about the incomes of people in Britain today, such as provided by official
statistics, tells us how much inequality there is or how many poor people there are in a given …

This paper argues that the assumption of strict exogeneity, which is usually invoked in
estimating models of state dependence with unobserved heterogeneity, is violated in the …

This review forms part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's programme to develop a set of
evidence-based anti-poverty strategies for the UK. The remit was to identify and analyse …

The paper examines the mobility into and out of poverty and identifies the determinants of
poverty spell beginnings and endings in 14 European Countries for the period 1994-2000 …

The aim of this paper is to study the mechanisms behind poverty persistence in Spain. We
examine the importance of past poverty experiences for explaining current poverty as …

This paper analyses the dynamics of poverty in Italy and compares it with that in France,
Spain and the UK. For this purpose, we use transition matrices of entry and exit poverty rates …

A consecuencia de los avances en los últimos años en la reducción de la pobreza, los
gobiernos de algunos países de América Latina se han planteado como objetivo erradicar …

This paper analyses the duration of child poverty in Germany. Observing the entire income
history from the individuals' birth to their coming of age at age 18, we are able to analyse …

We propose an analysis of the persistent at risk of poverty (PARP) rate in Italy at the
beginning of the Great Recession (2007–2010). Italy represents an interesting case study …