Research Catalog
What Works Best in Reducing Child Poverty A Benefit or Work Strategy?
- Title
- What Works Best in Reducing Child Poverty [electronic resource]: A Benefit or Work Strategy? / Peter Whiteford and Willem Adema
- Author
- Whiteford, Peter.
- Publication
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2007.
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Adema, Willem.
- Description
- 55 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
- Summary
- Child poverty is firmly on the policy agenda in many OECD countries. One of the main issues in the debate is the appropriate balance between the so-called "benefits strategy" (increasing the adequacy of benefits for low-income families with children) and the so-called "work strategy" (promoting policies to increase employment among poor families). The need to choose between these two apparent alternatives is sometimes seen as a consequence of an unavoidable trade-off between adequacy of benefits, work incentives and the costs of assistance...
- Series Statement
- OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, 1815-199X ; no.51
- Uniform Title
- OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, no.51.
- Subject
- Social Issues/Migration/Health
- LCCN
- 10.1787/233310267230
- OCLC
- oecd-lib-001587
- Author
- Whiteford, Peter.
- Title
- What Works Best in Reducing Child Poverty [electronic resource]: A Benefit or Work Strategy? / Peter Whiteford and Willem Adema
- Imprint
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2007.
- Series
- OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, 1815-199X ; no.51OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, 1815-199X ; no.51.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Social Issues/Migration/Health
- Added Author
- Adema, Willem.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 10.1787/233310267230 doi