Conditions of Social Vulnerability, Work and Low Income: Evidence for Europe in Comparative Perspective

Teresa Munzi and Timothy Smeeding

Chapter 2 in Institutions for Social Well-Being, 2008, pp 33-73 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Many nations have a long tradition of measuring income inequality and poverty and weighing the effectiveness, successes, and failures of government policies aimed at poverty reduction and at offsetting the instability effects of globalisation of labour markets.

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; Poverty Line; Poverty Rate; Disposable Income; Child Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230584358_3

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