persistent poverty

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We do not seek therefore to provide a comprehensive account of the full range of influences on persistentpoverty and deprivation.
For families in persistentpoverty, some risks are clearly present throughout the child's life, although other risk factors may emerge over time.
Overall the persistentpoverty measure constitutes a significant advance on cross-sectional income measures.
Because of left- and right-handed censoring, the estimates of persistentpoverty will be biased.
First, to what extent does the level of recurrent and persistentpoverty vary across countries?
Most of these people escaped poverty, though some more quickly than others, but almost 12 per cent did experience persistentpoverty.
We therefore find a remarkable similarity in the relationship between persistentpoverty and relative deprivation across countries.
The range of odds ratios lies between 1.47 and 13.18 for persistentpoverty and between 0.85 and 6.02 for the deprivation threshold.
It was in the framework of rapid urban expansion and persistentpoverty, henceforth dominated by unemployment and lack of housing, that youth crime took place.
Both countries also display the highest rate of persistentpoverty.
Of particular importance is the fact that relationships involving persistentpoverty come close to being uniform across countries.
However, it is also clear that many of those who have left poverty return relatively quickly and a substantial minority experience persistentpoverty.
This shows that the self-employed and those detached from the labour market are more likely to experience persistentpoverty than life-style deprivation.
However, there is clearly a great deal relating to the process of accumulation and of erosion of resources, which is not fully captured in the persistentpoverty measure.
Further, many of the children in the current study were maltreated, in addition to having experienced many psychosocial adversities such as persistentpoverty, family unemployment, and single parenting.
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