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Poverty and Overcrowding among Immigrant Children in an Emerging Destination: Evidence from Finland
(Springer, 2020-06-10)
This paper aims to analyze the patterns of poverty and housing overcrowding among immigrant children in Finland. We seek to explore whether and to what degree foreign-born children are disadvantaged relative to native ...
Is there a welfare trap? : Duration dependence in social assistance recipiency among young Finns
(Sage, 2022-07-29)
The probability of social assistance exit decreasing over time is called negative duration dependence. This study analyses duration dependence among young adults in Finland and aims to show how social assistance receipt ...
Gender differences in old-age poverty in 14 EU countries : exploring the role of household structure
(Springer, 2024-04-17)
The risk of poverty among older people varies widely across countries and between men and women. This study of 14 European Union (EU) countries investigates the impact of household structure on gender differences in old-age ...
What it means to be poor: dimensions of economic hardship among older people living in poverty across Europe
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-02-28)
This study finds out how often older people living at risk of poverty experience hardship on the ability to pay for usual expenses and unexpected expenses; how these dimensions overlap; and whether the incidence of hardship ...
The role of social transfers in reducing the poverty risk for larger families in the European Union
(Wiley, 2024-04-28)
The study examines the extent to which social transfers reduce the risk of poverty (measured by poverty rate and poverty gap) among large families (defined as those with three or four children) compared to smaller families ...
Association between age and subjective economic hardship across the income distribution in Europe
(Springer, 2024-05-22)
Savings explain the reduced risk of subjective economic hardship in the elderly.
The study examines the association between age and the risk of subjective economic hardship and how the association varies by level of ...
Age Differences in Material Deprivation in Finland: How do Consensus and Prevalence-Based Weighting Approaches Change the Picture?
(Springer, 2020-11-30)
While material deprivation is often used to measure poverty, analyses focusing on the measurement of material deprivation are scarce. This study provides new information on material deprivation by analyzing how differences ...
The magnitude and direction of changes in age-specific at-risk-of-poverty rates: An analysis of patterns of poverty trends in Europe in the mid-2010s
(SocArXiv, 2021-09-08)
The EU’s at-risk-of-poverty threshold is set at 60% of national median disposable equivalent income. Changes in median income therefore shift the at-risk-of-poverty threshold, which is likely to affect at-risk-of-poverty ...
Public Pension Generosity and Old-Age Poverty in OECD countries
(Cambridge university Press, 2021-07-07)
Pension adequacy is gaining importance as old-age poverty remains a pressing problem. In many advanced welfare states, the population is ageing rapidly and recent pension reforms have led to cuts in public pension provision. ...