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Persistent at risk of poverty in Ireland: An analysis of the Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2005-2008
Maître, Bertrand Russell, Helen Watson, Dorothy
Maître, Bertrand
Russell, Helen
Watson, Dorothy
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Bertrand Maître, Helen Russell, Dorothy Watson, 'Persistent at risk of poverty in Ireland: An analysis of the Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2005-2008', [report], Department of Social Protection. Social Inclusion Division, Social inclusion technical paper, 1, 2011, 2011-11
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Persistent at-risk-of-poverty; Maître, Russell and Watson
While cross-sectional analysis of poverty is extremely important, it still constitutes a snapshot of a situation at a precise point of time. By excluding the time dimension, this approach limits our understanding of poverty since it cannot assess the duration of poverty, transitions into and out of poverty, nor the effect of people’s previous experience of poverty and the influential role it plays on current (and future) poverty outcomes. In this paper we focus our analysis on persistent at-risk-of-poverty in Ireland as measured by one of the European Laeken indicators and using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). Our results show that in 2008 almost 10 per cent of the Irish population was persistently income poor at the 60 per cent median income line during the four-year period 2005 to 2008, while two-thirds of individuals did not have any experience of poverty during that time. Overall, children, persons living in a household headed by a female, or those who are unemployed, ill or disabled, or have a low level of education, are particularly exposed to persistent poverty. Even though the level of cross-sectional income poverty has declined recently in Ireland, the country has a very high level of persistent at-risk-of-poverty by European standards.
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2011-11
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Department of Social Protection. Social Inclusion Division