Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Greece

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manos Matsaganis ◽  
Fotis Papadopoulos ◽  
Panos Tskloglou
Keyword(s):  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
Minimum Income ◽  
Complete Eradication ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Social Transfers ◽  
Alternative Scenarios ◽  
Moderate Cost

The poverty-reducing impact of social transfers is weaker in Greece than in other EU countries, primarily due to the absence of a minimum social safety net. The paper examines the extent and structure of extreme poverty in Greece and attempts to assess the likely effects of the introduction of a minimum income scheme, under alternative scenarios about the extent of non-take up by eligible households as well as leakages to ineligible ones. Our results indicate that such a scheme could lead to an almost complete eradication of extreme poverty and a considerable decline in aggregate inequality at a moderate cost.

scholarly journals Falling through the social safety net? Analysing non‐take‐up of minimum income benefit and monetary social assistance in Austria

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 827-843
Author(s):  
Michael Fuchs ◽  
Katrin Gasior ◽  
Tamara Premrov ◽  
Katarina Hollan ◽  
Anette Scoppetta
Keyword(s):  
Social Assistance ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Minimum Income ◽  
The Social

Care Work on the Front Lines

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (820) ◽  
pp. 326-328
Author(s):  
Mary F. E. Ebeling
Keyword(s):  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Outpatient Care ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Essential Work ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
The Us

An ethnographic study of the work of nurse practitioners at an outpatient care facility shows how these medical professionals must endlessly multitask to fill gaps in the US social safety net. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new focus on the essential work of nurses and the lack of resources with which they often contend is especially timely.

“Willing to Do Anything for My Kids”: Inventive Mothering, Diapers, and the Inequalities of Carework

2020 ◽  
pp. 000312242097748
Author(s):  
Jennifer Randles
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Intensive Mothering ◽  
Child Centered ◽  
White Mothers ◽  
Mothers Of Color ◽  
Depth Interviews

Prior research highlights how mothers across social classes express similar beliefs that good parenting adheres to the tenets of intensive mothering by being child-centered, time-consuming, and self-sacrificing. Yet intensive mothering ideologies emphasize parenting tactics that assume children’s basic needs are met, while ignoring how mothers in poverty devise distinctive childrearing strategies and logics to perform carework demanded by deprivation, discrimination, and a meager social safety net. I theorize inventive mothering that instead highlights the complexity and agency of poor mothers’ innovative efforts to ensure children’s access to resources, protect children from the harms of poverty and racism, and present themselves as fit parents in the context of intersecting gender, class, and race stigma. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 70 mothers who experienced diaper need, I conceptualize diaper work as a case of inventive mothering that involves extensive physical, cognitive, and emotional labor. These findings show how focusing on childrearing practices experienced as “intense” from the point of view of more affluent, white mothers perpetuates inequalities by obscuring the complex labor poor mothers, especially poor mothers of color, perform when there is limited public support for fundamental aspects of childcare.

Caught in the Net: The Impact of Changes to Canadian Employment Insurance Legislation on Part-time Workers

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norene Pupo ◽  
Ann Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Employment Insurance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Insurance Programme ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Industrialised Countries ◽  
The Impact

Throughout Western highly industrialised countries, there has been a marked shift toward more conservative social policies signalling a dismantling of the welfare state as part of the process of globalisation. This paper examines the aetiology of the (un)employment insurance programme in the Canadian context. Recently, legislators have tightened eligibility rules, lowered earnings replacement rates and altered coverage requirements. While these changes signal a shredding of the social safety net, they differentially impact on certain segments of the population. Despite official pronouncements of fairness, employment insurance changes intensify the subordination women experience in the paid labour force.

Poverty in Italy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Saraceno ◽  
David Benassi ◽  
Enrica Morlicchio
Keyword(s):  
Safety Net ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Italian Economy ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Minimum Income ◽  
Mediterranean Countries ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
The Eu

Italy is one of the EU countries that was hardest hit by the 2008 financial crisis and is also slowest in recovering, even compared to other Mediterranean countries that share some of its societal features. Poverty has steadily increased throughout the period following 2008, and no clear indication of a trend reversal is yet visible. Working poor, the young, children and migrant foreign households are the main victims of the situation. Also the territorial divide has deepened, with the Southern regions bearing the brunt of the crisis much more, and for a longer time, than the Centre-North ones. According to the authors, the duration and depth of the crisis in Italy, and its impact on poverty, were largely a consequence of long-term structural features of the Italian economy, of its weak and fragmented social safety net, with its high expectations concerning family solidarity and the gender division of labour on the one hand, of its sluggish growth since the 1990s on the other. Governments’ austerity choices in reaction to the crisis (and under pressure from the EU) have further strengthened these features, although the recent introduction of a minimum income provision has marked an important change in the policy approach to poverty.

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