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Dear colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to our March Policy Brief "Poverty
and Social Exclusion of Migrants in the European Union" written by
Orsolya Lelkes and EszterZólyomi.
Abstract:
The Policy Brief analyses the occurrence of risk-of-poverty and social
exclusion among the migrant population, and the trends in poverty rates
between 2004 and 2007 based on the EU-SILC survey. The results include
various tests of reliability, including the estimation of confidence
intervals for the poverty estimates, and the use of alternative
definitions of migrants.
Migrants from outside the European Union are occasionally exposed to a
multiple times higher risk of poverty than the "indigenous" population.
EU and non-EU migrants constitute two rather distinct groups in most
countries in terms of their exposure to poverty.
The measurement of trends is hampered by the relatively short time
series and the reliability of the dataset (i.e. the low number of
observations). There was probably a decline in the risk of poverty in
Ireland. In contrast, there as a probable increase in the risk of
poverty in Germany, Estonia, and Latvia.
We also explore the measure of social exclusion as defined in the EU2020
Strategy, including an analysis of the overlap between the measures of
poverty, deprivation and low work intensity. Migrants are more likely to
be socially excluded than the local population. Altogether, however,
cumulative disadvantage (being at risk of poverty, suffering from severe
material deprivation and living in households with very low work
intensity) affects only about 1-2% of the migrant population, a number
of 62 thousand EU migrants, and 518 thousand non-EU migrants.
More: http://www.euro.centre.org/detail.php?xml_id=1873
Please feel free to forward the Policy Brief to colleagues who might be
interested.
Best regards,
Annette Hexelschneider, Dipl.-Ing.
Head of Knowledge and Information Management Support Unit
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
(Affiliated to the United Nations)
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A-1090 Vienna (Austria)
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