Societal shifts and changed patterns of poverty

This paper uses data from the Luxembourg Income Study to analyse cross-national and cross-temporal poverty risks in eleven western countries. Our analyses are embedded in the tradition of welfare state research. Despite a hundred years of welfare state efforts, at the beginning of the 21st century the question of poverty is still highly relevant. It remains today Europe's most fundamental social problem. In the first empirical section we present the situation overall and show that poverty risks have tended to increase from the early 1980s to the present day. We also show that the cross-nationa... Mehr ...