This volume examines the effects of the Great Recession on children living in the world's richest 11 countries.
Bea Cantillon is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp. She has acted as a consultant to, among others, the OECD, the European Commission, and the Belgian government. Next to being the Chair of the National Administration for Family Allowances, she also served as a Belgian senator (1995-1999) and she was the president of the National Reform Commission on the Belgian Social Security for independent workers (2000-2002). She is secretary-general of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security and coordinator of FP7 funded ImPRovE project. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Belgian Academy and a member of the Belgian High Council for Employment and of the commission on pension reform 2020-2040.One of her recent publications are Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction (with F. Vandenbroucke, OUP, 2014). Yekaterina Chzhen specializes in comparative social policy, focusing on the interplay between government policies and individual level outcomes, such as poverty, deprivation, and labour market participation. She currently leads UNICEF's Innocenti Report Card series on child well-being in OECD countries and is also part of the team studying multidimensional child poverty. She joined the Unicef Office of Research - Innocenti in February 2013 after two and a half years as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Quantitative Methods in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Oxford (Nuffield College). She completed her PhD in Social Policy & Economics at the University of York in 2010. Sudhanshu Handa is an economist specializing in poverty, human resources, and public policy. Over the last seven years he has led several large-scale evaluations of national cash transfer programs in sub-Saharan Africa as part of the Transfer Project. Recently he has been part of the research team on UNICEF's Innocenti Report Card which assesses the status of child poverty and well-being in OECD countries. His previous positions include Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Eduardo Mondlane University, and Social Development Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Toronto and his BA in Political Economy from the Johns Hopkins University. Brian Nolan is Director of the Employment, Equity and Growth Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School, Professor of Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford. His main areas of research are income inequality, poverty, and the economics of social policy. He has contributed to a wide range of comparative studies on poverty, income inequality, social indicators and social policies, tax and transfer policies, the labour market, the minimum wage, and health inequalities and health economics.
Show moreThis volume examines the effects of the Great Recession on children living in the world's richest 11 countries.
Bea Cantillon is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp. She has acted as a consultant to, among others, the OECD, the European Commission, and the Belgian government. Next to being the Chair of the National Administration for Family Allowances, she also served as a Belgian senator (1995-1999) and she was the president of the National Reform Commission on the Belgian Social Security for independent workers (2000-2002). She is secretary-general of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security and coordinator of FP7 funded ImPRovE project. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Belgian Academy and a member of the Belgian High Council for Employment and of the commission on pension reform 2020-2040.One of her recent publications are Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction (with F. Vandenbroucke, OUP, 2014). Yekaterina Chzhen specializes in comparative social policy, focusing on the interplay between government policies and individual level outcomes, such as poverty, deprivation, and labour market participation. She currently leads UNICEF's Innocenti Report Card series on child well-being in OECD countries and is also part of the team studying multidimensional child poverty. She joined the Unicef Office of Research - Innocenti in February 2013 after two and a half years as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Quantitative Methods in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Oxford (Nuffield College). She completed her PhD in Social Policy & Economics at the University of York in 2010. Sudhanshu Handa is an economist specializing in poverty, human resources, and public policy. Over the last seven years he has led several large-scale evaluations of national cash transfer programs in sub-Saharan Africa as part of the Transfer Project. Recently he has been part of the research team on UNICEF's Innocenti Report Card which assesses the status of child poverty and well-being in OECD countries. His previous positions include Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Eduardo Mondlane University, and Social Development Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Toronto and his BA in Political Economy from the Johns Hopkins University. Brian Nolan is Director of the Employment, Equity and Growth Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School, Professor of Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford. His main areas of research are income inequality, poverty, and the economics of social policy. He has contributed to a wide range of comparative studies on poverty, income inequality, social indicators and social policies, tax and transfer policies, the labour market, the minimum wage, and health inequalities and health economics.
Show more1: Yekaterina Chzhen, Sudhanshu Handa, Bea Cantillon, and Brian
Nolan: Introduction: Scope and Methods
2: Yekaterina Chzhen, Brian Nolan, Bea Cantillon, and Sudhanshu
Handa: Impact of the Economic crisis on Children in Rich
Countries
3: Julie Vinck, Wim Van Lancker, and Bea Cantillon: Belgium:
Creeping Vulnerability of Children
4: Thomas Bahle and Peter Krause: Child Poverty during the
Recession in Germany
5: Manos Matsaganis: The Impact of the Great Recession on Child
Poverty in Greece
6: Gábos and István György Tóth: Recession, Recovery, and Regime
Change: Effects on Child Poverty in Hungary
7: Brian Nolan and Bertrand Maître: Children of the Celtic Tiger
during the Economic Crisis: Ireland
8: Luisa Natali and Chiara Saraceno: The Impact of the Great
Recession on Child Poverty: The Case of Italy
9: Aya K. Abe: The Recession and the Policy Response for Child
Poverty in Japan
10: Sara Ayllón: Growing up in Poverty: Children and the Great
Recession in Spain
11: Jan O. Jonsson and Carina Mood: Sweden: Child Poverty during
Two Recessions
12: Jonathan Bradshaw, Yekaterina Chzhen, and Gill Main: Impact of
the Recession on Children in the United Kingdom
13: Christopher Wimer and Timothy Smeeding: USA Child Poverty: The
Impact of the Great Recession
14: Brian Nolan, Bea Cantillon, Sudhanshu Handa, and Yekaterina
Chzhen: Learning the Lessons: Enhancing Capacity to Protect
Children
Bea Cantillon is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the
Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of
Antwerp. She has acted as a consultant to, among others, the OECD,
the European Commission, and the Belgian government. Next to being
the Chair of the National Administration for Family Allowances, she
also served as a Belgian senator (1995-1999) and she was the
president of the National Reform Commission on the Belgian Social
Security for
independent workers (2000-2002). She is secretary-general of the
Foundation for International Studies on Social Security and
coordinator of FP7 funded ImPRovE project. She is also a Fellow of
the Royal
Belgian Academy and a member of the Belgian High Council for
Employment and of the commission on pension reform 2020-2040.One of
her recent publications are Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction
(with F. Vandenbroucke, OUP, 2014). Yekaterina Chzhen specializes
in comparative social policy, focusing on the interplay between
government policies and individual level outcomes, such as poverty,
deprivation, and labour market participation. She currently leads
UNICEF's Innocenti Report Card
series on child well-being in OECD countries and is also part of
the team studying multidimensional child poverty. She joined the
Unicef Office of Research - Innocenti in February 2013 after two
and a half
years as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Quantitative Methods in Social
and Political Sciences at the University of Oxford (Nuffield
College). She completed her PhD in Social Policy & Economics at the
University of York in 2010. Sudhanshu Handa is an economist
specializing in poverty, human resources, and public policy. Over
the last seven years he has led several large-scale evaluations of
national cash transfer programs in sub-Saharan Africa as part of
the Transfer Project. Recently he has
been part of the research team on UNICEF's Innocenti Report Card
which assesses the status of child poverty and well-being in OECD
countries. His previous positions include Lecturer at the
University of the
West Indies, Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Eduardo
Mondlane University, and Social Development Specialist at the
Inter-American Development Bank. He received his PhD in Economics
from the University of Toronto and his BA in Political Economy from
the Johns Hopkins University. Brian Nolan is Director of the
Employment, Equity and Growth Programme at the Institute for New
Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School, Professor of Social Policy
at the Department of Social Policy and
Intervention, and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College
Oxford. His main areas of research are income inequality, poverty,
and the economics of social policy. He has contributed to a wide
range of
comparative studies on poverty, income inequality, social
indicators and social policies, tax and transfer policies, the
labour market, the minimum wage, and health inequalities and health
economics.
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