Cross-National Trends in Income Poverty and Dependency: The Evidence for Young Adults in the Eighties

Lee Rainwater () and Timothy Smeeding ()

No 67, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: This paper compares the economic status of low income families age 25-55 across several LIS countries. It finds greater economic stress among younger families (35-55 age heads). It finds that U.S. families had higher poverty rates than European families over this period.

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Date: 1991-08
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Published in Poverty, Inequality and the Future of Social Policy: Western States in the New World Order, 1995

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