Poverty and Unemployment: The Cases of Italy and Spain

Addabbo, Tindara; García-Fernández, Rosa María; Llorca-Rodríguez, Carmen; Maccagnan, Anna

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“…For example, the south of Italy has a probability as high as 20% with zero workers, which drops to less than 5% with three or more. The role of employment in reducing the severity of SMD is supported by the existing literature (see, for instance, Addabbo et al, 2015). These findings suggest that further attention should be paid to the strengthening of active labor market policies that can improve job matching and reduce structural unemployment exacerbated by the Great Recession, both in Italy and Spain (Pinelli et al, 2017).…”

Section: Employment and Temporary Workmentioning

confidence: 56%

Social exclusion and financial distress: evidence from Italy and Spain

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Parisi

2021

Econ Polit

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This paper analyzes the phenomenon of severe material deprivation (SMD) in relation to socio-economic characteristics of Italian and Spanish households. Italy and Spain have registered very different shares of severe material deprivation (households that cannot afford a minimum acceptable way of life, which is a social exclusion problem) since the 2008–2009 economic crisis, despite having similar experiences of poverty as measured in monetary terms. The analysis divides SMD into low-severe (basic or secondary or financial deprivations), medium-severe (when household suffer of two categories of deprivation) and acute-severe (when households suffer from all deprivations) and finds many interesting features associated with these categories. For example, temporary work does not shield a household from acute SMD, especially in the south of both countries, and maximum work intensity does not protect against financial distress in Italy and the Spanish South. These findings should stimulate policymakers, as local policies are needed to alleviate social exclusion.

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Section: Employment and Temporary Workmentioning

confidence: 56%

Social exclusion and financial distress: evidence from Italy and Spain

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Parisi

2021

Econ Polit

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“…Nevertheless, even though economic prosperity plays a crucial role in the evolution of poverty over time, “it is not the only channel through which the macroeconomy affects the well‐being of the poor in a country” (Jefferson, 2012, p. 520). Unemployment is one of these other channels, and it seems to have a strong impact on poverty, since poor people normally have fewer skills and, thus, employers tend to lay them off first when economic conditions worsen (Addabbo, García‐Fernández, Llorca‐Rodríguez, & Maccagnan, 2012). Regarding other channels, most notably inflation, extant studies have found that its effects are modest (Son & Kakwani, 2009).…”

Section: Main Research Topics On Poverty: a Reviewmentioning

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The Focus on Poverty in the Most Influential Journals in Economics: A Bibliometric Analysis of the “Blue Ribbon” Journals

Cardoso

Teixeira

2020

Poverty & Public Policy

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Scientific publications tend to influence policymakers significantly. Despite the scientific and social importance of poverty today, the attention the top economic journals (American Economic Review; Econometrica; International Economic Review; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of Political Economy; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Review of Economic Studies) pay to the matter is not clear, particularly in the so‐called “Blue Ribbon” journals (and Review of Economics and Statistics). On the basis of bibliometric techniques, we analyzed all 27,322 articles published in the “Blue Ribbon” journals from 1970 to 2018. This is the first study on the scientific attention paid to poverty by the most influential journals in the field of economics. Two main findings can be highlighted: (i) the scientific attention paid to poverty in the Blue Ribbon journals is relatively meager, but it has observed a positive trend, increasing from a modest 0.36 percent of the total articles published in the 1970s to 1.92 percent of total publications in the 2010s; and (ii) the relative weight of specific poverty subtopics has significantly changed over the last 50 years, shifting from a focus on defining and measuring poverty in the earlier decades to policy‐related issues in the most recent period (2000 onward).

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“…In the past 15 years, the literature about poverty focused on "longitudinal" poverty, that is, analyzed the characteristics of the households that are at risk of being permanently poor or socially excluded. Cappellari and Jenkins (2004), Poggi (2007), Biewen (2009) and Addabbo, Garca-Fernndez, Llorca-Rodrguez, and Maccagnan (2015), for example, analyze persistence in Europe. At the country level, studies by Addabbo (2000), Baldini and Ciani (2011), Devicienti, Gualtieri, and Rossi (2014), Coppola and Di Laurea (2016) and the more recent work by Giarda and Moroni (2018) show that, as other countries in the Mediterranean region of the EU, such as Greece, Spain and Portugal, Italy is characterized by high poverty persistence.…”

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Risk of poverty in Southern Europe

Mussida

Parisi

2019

Metroeconomica

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We analyze whether the risk of poverty deteriorates with the crisis in France, Greece, Italy and Spain, for different categories of households, individual features and policy instruments, such as the regional European Structural Funds. We find that the impact of the economic recession was heterogeneous, deteriorating the status of temporary workers, self‐employed, single and female‐headed households, while the risk of poverty decreased relatively for larger households with dependent children and elderly members. We also find that targeted funds toward human capital investment are associated to decreasing the risk of poverty, but the crisis slowed down their effects.

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Poverty and Unemployment: The Cases of Italy and Spain

Cited by 16 publications

References 13 publications

Social exclusion and financial distress: evidence from Italy and Spain

Social exclusion and financial distress: evidence from Italy and Spain

The Focus on Poverty in the Most Influential Journals in Economics: A Bibliometric Analysis of the “Blue Ribbon” Journals

Risk of poverty in Southern Europe

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