Immigrant–Native Differences in Multidimensional Poverty After the Great Recession: A Comparison of Five European Countries

Rosa Martínez López and Jesús Ruiz-Huerta
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Jesús Ruiz-Huerta: University Rey Juan Carlos

Chapter Chapter 7 in Measuring Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation, 2017, pp 139-181 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We present an up-to-date analysis of the immigrant/native gap in multidimensional poverty in five European countries in a post-crisis scenario. The database used for the analysis is the latest available wave of the cross-sectional EU-SILC microdata files, covering year 2014. We find that immigrant households have multidimensional poverty levels that are clearly higher than those of the native-born population, irrespective of the specific threshold used. The size of the gap varies significantly across countries, with France, Italy and Spain performing much worse than Germany and the UK. The differences are especially large in the case of children of migrant background in countries like Italy or Spain, a result which suggests the need of better targeting this group in the new Southern European immigration countries. The paper also shows that there are some cross-country differences in the pattern of overlap between dimensions, thus confirming the importance of country-level determinants in shaping multidimensional poverty among native and immigrant households.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58368-6_7

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