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Child Well-Being, Child Poverty and Child Policy in Modern Nations: What Do We Know? by Koen Vleminckx and Timothy M. Smeeding
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Child Well-Being, Child Poverty and Child Policy in Modern Nations: What Do We Know? by Koen Vleminckx and Timothy M. Smeeding
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Old-Age Security Reforms in Central Eastern Europe: The Cases of Czech Republic, Slovak, Hungary and Poland
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Le bien-être économique des enfants européens. Une perspective comparative.
No full textRainwater (Lee), Smeeding (Timothy M.). - A comparative perspective of the economic welfare of European children A comparative survey of industrialised countries, the Luxembourg Income Study, has measured the economic welfare of children in the 1980s. Twelve countries are European: Germany, Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland, and four are non-European: Australia, Canada, the United States and Israel. In some countries trends can be measured from the end of 1960s. The proportion of deprived children is higher in non-European countries (12 to 23%) than in Europe (3 to 13%). It is also much higher in single-parent families (6 to 64%) than in two-parent families (1 to 13%). At best, the economic status of children has stayed constant over time although it has deteriorated over the last 25 years in two major countries: the United Kingdom and the United States.Rainwater (Lee), Smeeding (Timothy M.)- - Le bien-être économique des enfants européens : une perspective comparative Une enquête comparative dans les pays industriels, le Luxembourg Income Study, permet de mesurer le bien-être économique des enfants au cours des années 1980. 12 pays sont en Europe (Allemagne, Belgique, Finlande, France, Irlande, Italie, Luxembourg, Norvège, Pays-Bas, Royaume-Uni, Suède, Suisse) et 4 hors d'Europe (Australie, Canada, États- Unis, Israël). Dans quelques cas, des évolutions peuvent être mesurées depuis la fin des années 1960. La proportion d'enfants pauvres est plus forte dans les pays d'Europe (12 à 23 %) que dans les pays européens (3 à 13 %). Elle est aussi beaucoup plus forte dans les familles où la mère est seule (6 à 64 %) que dans celles où les deux parents sont présents (1 à 13 %). Au mieux, la situation économique des enfants est restée stable au fil du temps, mais elle s'est détériorée en 25 ans, au moins dans deux cas importants : le Royaunme-Uni et les États-Unis.Rainwater (Lee), Smeeding (Timothy M.). - El bienestar económico de los niňos eu- ropeos: una perspective comparative Una encuesta comparativa elaborada en los países industrializados, la Luxembourg Income Study, permite medir el bienestar económico de los niňos a lo largo de los aňos ochenta. La encuesta incluye 12 países europeos (Alemania, Bélgica, Finlandia, Francia, Ir- landa, Italia, Luxemburgo, Noruega, los Países Bajos, el Reino Unido, Suecia y Suiza) y 4 no europeos (Australia, Canada, Estados Unidos e Israel). En algunos casos es posible ob- servar las evoluciones seguidas desde el final de los aňos 1960. La proporción de niňos po- bres es más elevada en los países no europeos (de un 12 a un 23%) que en los europeos (de un 3 a un 13%). También es más elevada en el caso de madrés solas (de un 6 a un 64%) que en las familias en que ambos progenitores están présentes (de un 1 a un 13%). En el mejor de los casos, la situación económica de los niňos se ha mantenido estable a lo largo del tiempo, pero al menos en dos casos importantes se ha deteriorado en los últimos 25 aňos: el Reino Unido y Estados Unidos.Rainwater Lee, Smeeding Timothy M. Le bien-être économique des enfants européens. Une perspective comparative.. In: Population, 49ᵉ année, n°6, 1994. L'enfant dans la famille, vingt ans de changements. pp. 1437-1449
From parents to children: the intergenerational transmission of advantage
No full textDoes economic inequality in one generation lead to inequality of opportunity in the next? In From Parents to Children, an esteemed international group of scholars investigates this question using data from ten countries with differing levels of inequality. The book compares whether and how parents resources transmit advantage to their children at different stages of development and sheds light on the structural differences among countries that may influence intergenerational mobility. How and why is economic mobility higher in some countries than in others? The contributors find that inequality in mobility-relevant skills emerges early in childhood in all of the countries studied. Bruce Bradbury and his coauthors focus on learning readiness among young children and show that as early as age five, large disparities in cognitive and other mobility-relevant skills develop between low- and high-income kids, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. Such disparities may be mitigated by investments in early childhood education, as Christelle Dumas and Arnaud Lefranc demonstrate. They find that universal pre-school education in France lessens the negative effect of low parental SES and gives low-income children a greater shot at social mobility. Katherine Magnuson, Jane Waldfogel, and Elizabeth Washbrook find that income-based gaps in cognitive achievement in the United States and the United Kingdom widen as children reach adolescence. Robert Haveman and his coauthors show that the effect of parental income on test scores increases as children age; and in both the United States and Canada, having parents with a higher income betters the chances that a child will enroll in college. As economic inequality in the United States continues to rise, the national policy conversation will not only need to address the devastating effects of rising inequality in this generation but also the potential consequences of the decline in mobility from one generation to the next. Drawing on unparalleled international datasets, From Parents to Children provides an important first step
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