La pauvreté des familles : comparaisons européennes
In: Politiques sociales et familiales, Band 98, Heft 1, S. 9-19
Family poverty : European comparisons.
This article offers compares the main features of poverty in six member nations of the European Union. The first section reviews the main conventions adopted for the measurement of poverty and attempts to compare terre impact in various countries, in particular the choice of an equivalence scale. The second section focuses the characteristics of the poor by household type, usine several typologies of hosueholds ; the comparison of three subpolulations (dépendent children, '' adults'', elders) shows the similarities – and alto the differences – in the composition of poverty by country.