What keeps young adults in permanent poverty? A comparative analysis using ECHP |
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Authors: | D Mendola A Busetta A Aassve |
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Institution: | aDipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi per le Scienze Umane, Università degli studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, ed. 13, 90128 Palermo, Italy;bDONDENA centre for research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy |
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Abstract: | Previous studies suggest that there are strong differences in the rates of youth poverty across European countries. Rather surprisingly, it is found to be high in Scandinavian countries, and relatively speaking, lower in Mediterranean and Anglo-Saxon countries. This somewhat unexpected finding prompts the question whether the incidence of poverty is an appropriate measure of youth disadvantage. Instead of considering poverty rates we consider the length of recorded poverty spells, taking into account explicitly the temporal sequencing of the episodes of poverty. Using the European Community Household Panel, individuals are classified into different groups of poverty permanence, each reflecting severity of social disadvantage. Based on these categories we implement a generalized ordinal logit model to assess the various factors associated with social disadvantage among youth. We find that cross-national patterns differ from those found in previous studies. In particular from our findings it does not result that poverty is highest among young people in Social Democratic countries. Our analysis shows important gender differences, though they are not the same across the countries included in the study. For some countries it turns out that being a woman is a protective factor against long-term poverty. As previous studies suggests, young individuals’ living arrangements matter. |
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Keywords: | Permanence of poverty Youth Comparative studies Panel data Partial Proportional Odds Ordered Logit ECHP European studies |
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