- Title Pages
- In memory of Dr Hugh Brendan Davies
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Introduction
-
Part 1 The extent and trend of child poverty in industrialised nations -
One Child poverty across the industrialised world: evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study -
Two Poverty across states, nations, and continents -
Part 2 Outcomes for children -
Three Values, policies and the well-being of young children in Canada, Norway and the United States -
Four Child well-being in the EU – and enlargement to the East -
Five Childhood experiences, educational attainment and adult labour market performance -
Six The impact of poverty on children’s school attendance – evidence from West Germany -
Seven Inequalities in the use of time by teenagers and young adults -
Eight Gender inequality in poverty in affluent nations: the role of single motherhood and the state -
Part 3 Country Studies and Emerging Issues -
Nine The impact of economic change on child welfare in Central Asia -
Ten The evolution of child poverty in Ireland -
Eleven Living conditions of immigrant children in Germany -
Twelve Who has borne the cost of Britain’s children in the 1990s? -
Thirteen The public and private costs of children in Australia, 1993–94 -
Fourteen Socioeconomic circumstances in Europe and North America among school-aged children -
Part 4 Child and Family Policies -
Fifteen Income inequalities and poverty among children and households with children in selected OECD countries -
Sixteen Reducing child poverty in the European Union: the role of child benefits1 -
Seventeen Public policies that support families with young children: variation across US states -
Eighteen Income transfers and support for mothers’ employment: the link to family poverty risks1 -
Nineteen Child support among selected OECD countries: a comparative analysis -
Twenty Child and family policies in an era of social policy retrenchment and restructuring -
General Conclusions What have we learned and where do we go from here? - Index
Reducing child poverty in the European Union: the role of child benefits1
Reducing child poverty in the European Union: the role of child benefits1
- Chapter:
- (p.406) (p.407) Sixteen Reducing child poverty in the European Union: the role of child benefits1
- Source:
- Child well-being, child poverty and child policy in modern nations (Revised 2nd Edition)
- Author(s):
Herwig Immervoll
Holly Sutherland
Klaas de Vos
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This chapter examines the role of child benefits in protecting the children in Europe from financial poverty. It defines ‘child benefits’ as the regular cash payments that are made to parents or other carers on behalf of the children who are dependent on them. The chapter establishes a scale of the problem using the household microdata for 15 countries to count the proportion of children living in households with incomes below the poverty line in Europe. It also attempts to assess the role of existing family benefits in preventing child poverty. The chapter ends with a section on the impacts of national child benefits on the national income distribution and estimates of poverty.
Keywords: child benefits, financial poverty, household microdata, poverty line, family benefits, national child benefits, impacts of benefits, national income distribution, poverty estimates
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- Title Pages
- In memory of Dr Hugh Brendan Davies
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Introduction
-
Part 1 The extent and trend of child poverty in industrialised nations -
One Child poverty across the industrialised world: evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study -
Two Poverty across states, nations, and continents -
Part 2 Outcomes for children -
Three Values, policies and the well-being of young children in Canada, Norway and the United States -
Four Child well-being in the EU – and enlargement to the East -
Five Childhood experiences, educational attainment and adult labour market performance -
Six The impact of poverty on children’s school attendance – evidence from West Germany -
Seven Inequalities in the use of time by teenagers and young adults -
Eight Gender inequality in poverty in affluent nations: the role of single motherhood and the state -
Part 3 Country Studies and Emerging Issues -
Nine The impact of economic change on child welfare in Central Asia -
Ten The evolution of child poverty in Ireland -
Eleven Living conditions of immigrant children in Germany -
Twelve Who has borne the cost of Britain’s children in the 1990s? -
Thirteen The public and private costs of children in Australia, 1993–94 -
Fourteen Socioeconomic circumstances in Europe and North America among school-aged children -
Part 4 Child and Family Policies -
Fifteen Income inequalities and poverty among children and households with children in selected OECD countries -
Sixteen Reducing child poverty in the European Union: the role of child benefits1 -
Seventeen Public policies that support families with young children: variation across US states -
Eighteen Income transfers and support for mothers’ employment: the link to family poverty risks1 -
Nineteen Child support among selected OECD countries: a comparative analysis -
Twenty Child and family policies in an era of social policy retrenchment and restructuring -
General Conclusions What have we learned and where do we go from here? - Index
