Analyzing Intergenerational Influences on Income Poverty & Economic Vulnerability with EU-SILC

The European Union Statistics of Income and Living Conditions <br/>(EU-SILC) 2005 wave includes a special module on inter-generational <br/>transmission of poverty. In addition to the standard data relating to income <br/>and material deprivation, information relating to parental background and <br/>childhood circumstances was collected for all household members aged over <br/>24 and less than 66 at the end of the income reference period. In principle, <br/>the module provides an unprecedented opportunity to apply a welfare regime <br/>perspective to a comparative European analysis of the relationship between <br/>poverty and social exclusion and parental characteristics and childhood <br/>economic circumstances. In this paper, we seek to exploit such potential. In <br/>pursuing this objective, it is necessary to take into account some of the <br/>limitations of the data. We do by restricting our attention to a set of <br/>countries where data issues seem less extreme. Finally, we compare findings <br/>from one dimensional and multidimensional approaches to poverty and social <br/>exclusion in order to provide an assessment of the extent to which our <br/>analysis of welfare regime variation provides a coherent account of the <br/>intergenerational transmission of disadvantage.