Download full text
(606.4Kb)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-72105-9
Exports for your reference manager
Poverty risk of the unemployed in six European countries: why is it higher in some countries than in others?
[journal article]
Abstract In all European countries unemployed persons face a high risk of relative poverty, but poverty rates vary greatly among EU countries. We analyse to what extent these differences could be explained by a different composition of the unemployed or by differences in the national income distribution func... view more
In all European countries unemployed persons face a high risk of relative poverty, but poverty rates vary greatly among EU countries. We analyse to what extent these differences could be explained by a different composition of the unemployed or by differences in the national income distribution functions. Our results indicate that the effects of individual characteristics on the poverty risk are roughly comparable between countries, but the composition of the unemployed is very different, which explains on average half of the cross-country differences in poverty rates.... view less
Keywords
poverty; unemployment; EU; income distribution; Belgium; Federal Republic of Germany; Spain; Sweden; Slovakia; Great Britain; social policy
Classification
Social Problems
Free Keywords
EU-SILC 2014
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 1301-1305
Journal
Applied Economics Letters, 26 (2019) 16
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2018.1558329
ISSN
1466-4291
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0