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Child Poverty in Former Yugoslav Countries
Žarković, Jelena
Anić, Aleksandra
Abstract: Paper analyses child poverty determinants in four former Yugoslav republics: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. We show how child benefits have been transformed in the period following the dissolution of the country and how that might have impacted current varying levels of child poverty rates. Comparing poverty reduction due to social transfers, we see that pensions play more important role than other social transfers in Serbia and Montenegro. In Slovenia social transfers other than pensions have the highest capacity to reduce child poverty among the four countries. Labour market status of parents, their educational level and household composition as poverty determinants are also addressed. Single parent households are mostly exposed to the poverty in Slovenia and Croatia whereas in Montenegro and Serbia those having three or more children. Paper concludes with policy proposals that could reverse the trend especially in Serbia which faces one of the highest child poverty rates in Europe.
engleski
2022
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Keywords: child poverty, welfare state, social transfers, ex-Yugoslavia