West Coast Poverty Center Seminar Series: Differences in Social Transfer Support and Poverty for Immigrant Families
January 15, 2009
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Parrington Hall Commons, 308
The West Coast Poverty Center presents "Differences in Social Transfer Support and Poverty for Immigrant Families with Children: Lessons from the LIS" with Tim Smeeding.
Abstract
Social vulnerability due to insufficient income and
earnings may come from many sources, both demographic and economic, in
a globalizing world. Many believe these problems are most acute for
immigrants, and their children especially. The paper this seminar is based on examines
poverty status and social transfer support for immigrant families with
children in the United States, Australia, Canada, and Europe using the
LIS (Luxembourg Income Study) database and some additional countries
from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) database.
About Tim Smeeding
Tim Smeeding is the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP). He is the founder and director emeritus of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) that started in 1983 and was awarded an honorary degree in September 2008 by Stockholm University for his work with the study.
Smeeding is also co-editor of the Oxford University Press' forthcoming Handbook of Economic Inequality to be published in January 2009. His recent work has been on poverty amongst the children of immigrants in a cross-national context, with recent publications including:
- Poor Kids in a Rich Country: America's Children in Comparative Perspective, co-authored with Lee Rainwater (Russell Sage Foundation, 2003) is based on LIS data and places child poverty in the United States in an international context.
- The Future of the Family, co-edited by Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Lee Rainwater (Russell Sage Foundation, 2004; paperback ed., 2006) brings together the top scholars of family policy to take stock of the state of the family in the United States and address the ways in which public policy affects the family and vice versa.
- Immigration and the Transformation of Europe, co-edited with Craig Parsons (Cambridge University Press, 2006), examines a new kind of historic transformation underway in 21st Century Europe, in-flows of non-European people.
For more information about this event, please contact WCPC - Denise Novotny / Jen Romich via email or by phone at 206-221-3781.
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