Sociologist at SOFI, interested in families, social policy, and poverty & inequality.
Joint coordinator of the rEUsilience project (www.reusilience.eu)
Rense Nieuwenhuis
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The figure shows that the distributions of income relative to the poverty threshold vastly differ between groups, and that this variation is not summarized well by any one indicator. First, the head count poverty rate shows substantial group differences in the prevalence of poverty.
Third, there is large heterogeneity in poverty buffers, and the figure demonstrates a pattern of cumulative advantage: lower head count poverty rates go hand in hand with larger buffers.
Rense Nieuwenhuis
Rense Nieuwenhuis
Our new paper is in Social Politics: One Size Fits Few: The Evolution of the European Union’s Work–Life Balance Agenda over Three Decades academic.oup.com/sp/article/d...
Call for papers open! ESPAnet, Lisbon, Aug 26-28, 2026.
Note multiple interesting streams, including Stream #25 "Territorial #Inequalities and the Welfare State: The Spatial Politics of Service Delivery" (conveners: Michal Koreh, Jane Gingrich, Sarah Bruch)
www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/en/event/24t...
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Second, average poverty gaps show that poverty intensity is similar across groups, although groups with higher poverty rates tend to have narrower income distributions, which reflect a high degree of stratification in living conditions of children with parents with different migration backgrounds.
We conceptualized poverty as an inherent aspect of inequality, complementing analyses of group differences in head count poverty rates with income distributions around the poverty threshold, poverty gaps, and buffers.
