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Relative Income Poverty Among Children in Rich Countries UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre INNOCENTI WORKING PAPER RELATIVE INCOME POVERTY AMONG CHILDREN IN RICH COUNTRIES Jonathan Bradshaw, Yekaterina Chzhen, Gill Main, Bruno Martorano, Leonardo Menchini and Chris de Neubourg IWP-2012-01 January 2012 Innocenti Working Papers UNICEF Innocenti Working Papers are intended to disseminate initial research contributions within or relevant to the Centre‟s programme of work, addressing social, economic and other aspects of the realisation of the human rights of children. The findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the policies or views of UNICEF. The text has not been edited to official publications standards and UNICEF accepts no responsibility for errors. Extracts from this publication may be freely reproduced with due acknowledgement. Requests to utilize larger portions or the full publication should be addressed to the Communication Unit at [email protected]. © 2012 United Nations Children‟s Fund (UNICEF) ISSN: 1014-7837 For readers wishing to cite this document we suggest the following form: Bradshaw, Jonathan, Yekaterina Chzhen, Gill Main, Bruno Martorano, Leonardo Menchini, Chris de Neubourg (2012), „Relative Income Poverty among Children in Rich Countries‟, Innocenti Working Paper No. 2012-01, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence. ii The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, Italy, was established in 1988 to strengthen the research capability of the United Nations Children‟s Fund (UNICEF) and to support its advocacy for children worldwide. The Centre helps to identify and research current and future areas of UNICEF‟s work. Its prime objectives are to improve international understanding of issues relating to children‟s rights and to help facilitate full implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in developing, middle-income and industrialized countries. IRC is the dedicated research hub of the UNICEF Office of Research (OOR), which provides global leadership for the organization‟s strategic research agenda around children. The Office aims to set out a comprehensive framework for research and knowledge within the organization, in support of its global programmes and policies. Through strengthening research partnerships with leading academic institutions and development networks in both the North and South, the Office seeks to leverage additional resources and influence in support of efforts towards policy reform in favour of children. IRC‟s publications are contributions to a global debate on children and child rights issues and include a wide range of opinions. For that reason, the Centre may produce publications that do not necessarily reflect UNICEF policies or approaches on some topics. The views expressed are those of the authors and/or editors and are published by the Centre in order to stimulate further dialogue on child rights. The Centre collaborates with its host institution in Florence, the Istituto degli Innocenti, in selected areas of work. Core funding for the Centre is provided by the Government of Italy, while financial support for specific projects is also provided by other governments, international institutions and private sources, including UNICEF National Committees. For further information and to download this or other IRC publications, please visit the IRC website at www.unicef-irc.org. Correspondence should be addressed to: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre Piazza SS. Annunziata, 12 50122 Florence, Italy Tel: (+39) 055 20 330 Fax: (+39) 055 2033 220 [email protected] www.unicef-irc.org iii iv RELATIVE INCOME POVERTY AMONG CHILDREN IN RICH COUNTRIES Jonathan Bradshaw,a Yekaterina Chzhen,b Gill Main,a Bruno Martorano,c Leonardo Menchinic and Chris de Neubourgc1 a University of York, b University of Oxford, c UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre Abstract This paper presents and discusses child relative income poverty statistics for 35 economically advanced countries, representing all the members of the European Union, Australia, Canada, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United States. As most of the data refer to the year 2008, the results partly reflect the initial impact of the global economic crisis as well as government responses. According to the data, Nordic countries and the Netherlands present the lowest child relative poverty levels, while Japan, the United States, most of the Southern European countries and some of the new EU member states have among the highest. Several factors are associated with the risk of poverty, such as demographic composition, educational level of household members, labour conditions, but the extent to which these factors influence the risk of poverty vary considerably across countries. Lastly, in several countries the role of government is found to be highly important in reducing child poverty. Keywords: child well-being, poverty, incomes, employment, OECD countries, fiscal policy 1 The authors wish to thank Bryan Perry (Ministry of Social Development, New Zealand) for having provided the child poverty statistics for New Zealand and Aya Abe (National Institute of Population and Social Security Research) for supplying the child poverty statistics for Japan; Jan Oliver Suer (UNICEF IRC) provided valuable assistance; Peter Adamson and Marco Sanfilippo (UNICEF IRC) made important comments and suggestions. The authors also wish to thank the UNICEF National Committees in Australia, Canada and New Zealand for their support in accessing the relevant data sources used for the analysis. v Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………. 1 2. DATA SOURCES AND PERIOD OF REFERENCE OF THE DATA………….. 2 3. CHILD INCOME POVERTY: ASSUMPTIONS, POVERTY LINES AND CALCULATIONS…………………………………………………………………….....4 4. THE RESULTS: CHILD INCOME POVERTY IN RICH COUNTRIES………………...4 5. CHILD POVERTY AND OVERALL POVERTY…………………………...……9 6. CHILD POVERTY AND HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION…..…………………..11 7. CHILD POVERTY AND HOUSEHOLD SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS 13 8. CHILD POVERTY AND GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION WITH TAXES AND SOCIAL TRANSFERS...…………………………………………………………20 9. CONCLUSIONS………………………………………………………………………23 APPENDIX………………………………………………………………………………25 REFERENCES……………………………………..……………………………………30 vi 1. INTRODUCTION This paper reports and discusses the results of the analysis on relative income poverty among children in high income countries conducted for the Innocenti Report Card 10. The analysis includes all the 27 European Union countries, as well as Iceland and Norway, and Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Switzerland and United States. Child income poverty has been the specific focus of two previous Innocenti Report Cards (Report Card 1 and Report Card 6) and of their background papers, where methodological issues, meaning of the indicators, limitations and caveats have been presented and discussed. In particular these studies confirmed the relevance of a relative approach for understanding poverty in the context of economically advanced countries. Indeed, relative poverty reflects better the cost of social inclusion and equality of opportunity in a specific time and space. “Once economic development has progressed beyond a certain minimum level, the rub of the poverty problem – from the point of view of both the poor individual and of the societies in which they live – is not so much the effects of poverty in any absolute form but the effects of the contrast, daily perceived, between the lives of the poor and the lives of those around them. For practical purposes, the problem of poverty in the industrialized nations today is a problem of relative poverty” (UNICEF 2000:9). In addition, Report Card 6 included a series of recommendations on child income poverty measurement, on setting poverty reduction goals and on monitoring progress in poverty reduction. That Report also presented the comparative analysis of the effect of government interventions, with taxes and transfer, in terms of child poverty reduction in OECD countries. Child income poverty has also been an important component of the analysis in other issues of the Report Card series, in addition to other indicators in multidimensional well-being frameworks. In the Innocenti Report Card 7 on child well-being, figures on child income poverty were included in the material well-being dimension: they were discussed along with data on other well-being indicators, with the conclusion that no single indicator nor dimension are representative of the overall situation of children in a country, but at the same time it was acknowledged that income poverty data have an important and revealing role, and clear policy linkages. The Innocenti Report Card 9, on inequality in the bottom end of the distribution of well-being among children, presents data on income inequality as well as on child relative income poverty. Relative poverty reflects the inequality in the bottom-half of the income distribution: the poor are those living in households with an equivalent income which is far lower than the national median income (a poverty threshold set at half of the median is used in this analysis). Consequently they are at risk of not enjoying the prevalent living standards of the society in which they live, and are therefore unlikely to be able to fully participate in the community. Report Cards 1 and 6 anticipated that the theme of child income poverty and statistical updates would have continued in the series, along with a discussion on the
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