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Children of Austerity: Impact of the Great Recession on Child Poverty in Rich Countries

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  • Cantillon, Bea
    (Director, Hermand Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp)

  • Chzhen, Yekaterina
    (Social and Economic Policy Specialist, UNICEF Office of Research)

  • Handa, Sudhanshu
    (Professor, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

  • Nolan, Brian
    (Professor of Social Policy, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford)

Abstract

The 2008 financial crisis triggered the worst global recession since the Great Depression. Many OECD countries responded to the crisis by reducing social spending. Through 11 diverse country case studies (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States), this volume describes the evolution of child poverty and material well-being during the crisis, and links these outcomes with the responses by governments. The analysis underlines that countries with fragmented social protection systems were less able to protect the incomes of households with children at the time when unemployment soared. In contrast, countries with more comprehensive social protection cushioned the impact of the crisis on households with children, especially if they had implemented fiscal stimulus packages at the onset of the crisis. Although the macroeconomic 'shock' itself and the starting positions differed greatly across countries, while the responses by governments covered a very wide range of policy levers and varied with their circumstances, cuts in social spending and tax increases often played a major role in the impact that the crisis had on the living standards of families and children. Contributors to this volume - Aya K. Abe, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research Sara Ayllon, Universitat de Girona Thomas Bahle, University of Mannheim Jonathan Bradshaw, University of York Bea Cantillon, University of Antwerp Yekaterina Chzhen, UNICEF Office of Research Andras Gabos, Tarki Social Research Institute Sudhanshu Handa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jan O. Jonsson, University of Oxford Peter Krause, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) Gill Main, University of Leeds Bertrand Maitre, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin Manos Matsaganis, Politecnico di Milano Carina Mood, Swedish Institute for Social Research Luisa Natali, UNICEF Office of Research Brian Nolan, University of Oxford Chiara Saraceno, WZB Berlin Timothy Smeeding, University of Wisconsin-Madison Istvan Gyorgy Toth, Tarki Social Research Institute Wim Van Lancker, Research Foundation Flanders Julie Vinck, Research Foundation Flanders Christopher Wimer, Columbia University

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  • Cantillon, Bea & Chzhen, Yekaterina & Handa, Sudhanshu & Nolan, Brian (ed.), 2017. "Children of Austerity: Impact of the Great Recession on Child Poverty in Rich Countries," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198797968, Decembrie.
  • Handle: RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780198797968
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