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Child Well-Being, Child Poverty and Child Policy in Modern Nations: What Do We Know? Revised Second Edition de Koen Vleminckx

Child Well-Being, Child Poverty and Child Policy in Modern Nations: What Do We Know? Revised Second Edition

Editat de Koen Vleminckx, Timothy M. Smeeding
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 feb 2001
This revised edition includes a new foreword and an updated introduction and conclusion providing insights into the key issues. The book's contributors are all leading experts in their fields, and have studied the extent of child poverty, its consequences for children and the effectiveness of policies of prevention.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781861342539
ISBN-10: 1861342535
Pagini: 592
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 46 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Koen Vleminckx, Department of Sociology, Catholic University of Leuven and Timothy M. Smeeding, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University

Cuprins

Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of contributors

Introduction: Ending child poverty in industrialised nations
Koen Vleminckx and Timothy M. Smeeding
Part 1: The extent and trend of child poverty in industrialised nations
1. Child poverty across the industrialised world: evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study
Bruce Bradbury and Markus Jäntti
2. Poverty across states, nations, and continents
Lee Rainwater, Timothy M. Smeeding and John Coder
Part 2: Outcomes for children
3. Values, policies and the well-being of young children in Canada, Norway and the United States
Shelley Phipps
4. Child well-being in the EU—and enlargement to the East
John Micklewright and Kitty Stewart
5. Childhood experiences, educational attainment and adult labour market performance
Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin
6. The impact of poverty on children's school attendance—evidence from West Germany
Felix Büchel, Joachim R. Frick, Peter Krause and Gert G. Wagner
7. Inequalities in the use of time by teenagers and young adults
Anne H. Gauthier and Frank F. Furstenberg Jr
8. Gender inequality in poverty in affluent nations: the role of single motherhood and the state
Karen Christopher, Paula England, Sara McLanahan, Katherin Ross and Timothy M. Smeeding
Part 3: Country studies and emerging issues
9. The impact of economic change on child welfare in Central Asia
Jane Falkingham
10. The evolution of child poverty in Ireland
Brian Nolan
11. Living conditions of immigrant children in Germany
Joachim R. Frick and Gert G. Wagner
12. Who has borne the cost of Britain's children in the 1990s?
Hugh Davies and Heather Joshi
13. The public and private costs of children in Australia, 1993–94
Richard Percival and Ann Harding
14. Socioeconomic circumstances among school-aged children in Europe and North America
Candace Currie
Part 4: Child and family policies
15. Income inequalities and poverty among children and households with children in selected OECD countries
Howard Oxley, Thai-Thanh Dang, Michael F. Förster and Michele Pellizzari
16. Reducing child poverty in the European Union: the role of child benefits
Herwig Immervoll, Holly Sutherland and Klaas de Vos
17. Public policies that support families with young children: variation across US states
Marcia K. Meyers, Janet C. Gornick, Laura R. Peck and Amanda J. Lockshin
18. Income transfers and support for mothers' employment: the link to family poverty risks
Cristina Solera
19. Child support among selected OECD countries: a comparative analysis
James Kunz, Patrick Villeneuve and Irwin Garfinkel
20. Child and family policies in an era of social policy retrenchment and restructuring
Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn
General Conclusions: What have we learned and where do we go from here?
Koen Vleminckx and Timothy M. Smeeding

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