Empirical Poverty Research in a Comparative Perspective

Herausgeber: Jurgen Andreß, Hans

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1998, this books considers defining the concept of poverty as a collective issue through an empitrical view point on an international scale.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 778g
• ISBN-13: 9781138313514
• ISBN-10: 1138313513
• Artikelnr.: 57046359

Autorenporträt

Hans-Jürgen Andreß studied social and political science at the Universities of Frankfurt/Main (Germany) and Ann Arbor (USA). He gained his Dr. phil. at the University of Frankfurt/Main in 1983 and is at present professor for empirical research methods and computer science at the Faculty of Sociology of Bielefeld University (Germany). He has published in the field of multivariate statistical methods, labour market, and poverty research.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Empirical Poverty Research in a Comparative Perspective: Basic
Orientations and Outline of the Book, Hans-Jurgen Andreß. 2. Rethinking
Poverty in a Dynamic Perspective, Robert Wlker. 3. 'Social Exclusion' and
'Underclass' - New Concepts for the Analysis of Poverty, Martin Kronauer.
4. Do Poor Neighborhoods Make Their Residents Poorer? Context Effects of
Poverty Neighborhoods on Residents, Jurgen Friedrichs. 5. Failing
Selectivity: On the Extent and Causes of Non-Take-Up of Social Security
Benefits, Wim Van Oorschot. 6. Perceptions of the Minimum Standard of
Living in Belgium: Is there a Consensus? Karel Van den Boscch. 7. Different
Methods - Different Results? Approaches to Multidimensional poverty, Olli
Kangas, Veli-Matti Ritakallio. 8. The Convergence Between Measures of
Poverty in a Static Verses Dynamic Perspective: An Empirical Illustration
of France, Bruno Jeandidier , Jean- Luc Jop. 8. Long-Term Income and
Deprivation-Based Poverty Among the Elderly, Ruud Muffels, Henk-Jan Dirven.
8. Impoverishment and Social Exclusion: A Dynamic Perspective on Income and
Relative Deprivation in Belgium and the Netherlands, Henk-Jan Dirven and
Didier Fouarge. 9. Poor Swedes, Poor Britons: A Comparative Analysis of
Relative Deprivation, Bjorn Hallerod. 10. Long-Term Recipiency of Social
Assistance in Germany: The Eighties Verses the Nineties, Petra Buhr and
Andreas Weber. 11. Poverty Risks and the Life Cycle: The Individualization
Thesis Reconsidered, Hans-Jurgen Andreß, Katja Schulte. 12. The Expansion
of Poverty ad a Social Cost of Transition: A Challenge for Russia, Vladimir
Mikhalev. 13. Urban Poverty and Local Policies Against Social Exclusion in
Italy: The North-South Devide, Yuri Kazepov.