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Changing Inequalities: How Do They Affect Societies?
Opening Conference of the GINI project
19-20 March 2010 at the London School of Economics
Successful policy mixes to tackle the impact
of rising inequality on children
- an EU-wide comparison András Gábos
TÁRKI Social Research Institute
The discussion paper
Provides an input for the Policy Analysis report
Examines the effect of policies ON inequalities
Concentrates on
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the lower end of the income distribution
a specific sub-population (but mostly characterised by
household level parameters)
Timeliness: the economic crisis might strongly affect
both the public and private investments in children and
therefore their risk of poverty as well as their well-being
in general
Why tackling child poverty?
Risk of poverty of children: higher than average in most of the MSs and
increasing trend seems to be dominant over the last decades
Equity reasons
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children have no direct influence on their situation, but have the same rights
Efficiency reasons
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their risk of poverty is strongly related to their development and coming
performance as adults, further determining the future outcomes of the
society:
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socially and financially sustainable economic growth
quality and quantity of employment
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social cohesion and maintainable welfare systems
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Dilemmas
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to improve short-term or long-term outcomes?
overall inequalities determine child poverty or present inequalities among
children has an influence on future patterns?
Starting point
EU: child mainstreaming since 2005 within the Social OMC
TÁRKI - Applica (2010): Child poverty and child well-being
in the European Union (commissioned by the DG EMPL)
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Follow-up of EU Task-Force on Child Poverty and Child Well-Being
report (2008) – methodological framework
International benchmarking covering the EU Member
States: to assess the performance of countries in the field
of child poverty
Dimensions: (i) child poverty risk outcomes, (ii)
joblessness, (iii) in-work poverty, (iv) impact of social
transfers
Country clusters
Group A: good performers in all dimensions
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DK, FR, CY, NL, AT, SI, SE, FI
adequate income support, high levels of activity, extensive
childcare provisions
Group B: joblessness is key challenge
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BE, CZ, DE, EE, IE, HU, SK, UK
large number of children living with lone parents (exc. HU, SK)
Group C: relatively bad performance in all dimensions
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LV, LT (BG, MT, RO)
Group D: in-work poverty is key challenge
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EL, ES, IT, LU, PL, PT
low levels of support, being also narrowly targeted
Tasks to be carried out
To further deepen the analysis on the household-level
determinants of child poverty
To further deepen the analysis on the impact of social
transfers
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withdrawal effects, EUROMOD, model family method
To identify succesful policy combinations
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income support
LM policies
childcare services
Main datasource: EU-SILC
Expected outcomes
Country clusters of EU MSs based on the most
important and robust indicators on child poverty
outcomes, household determinants and policy
effectiveness
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to explicitely include
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patterns of persistent poverty
the role of household composition
the role of childcare
to consider non-income indicators of poverty
Policy conclusions
Input for project-level recommendations on better social
indicators