Migrant origin children and child poverty in Spain: a decomposition analysis

Southern and Eastern European countries have historically had high child poverty rates. In the case of Spain, child poverty rates for migrant origin children, a growing population group, have remained among the highest across EU-27 countries in the last decades. Despite wide recognition among both r...

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Autores: Arcarons, Albert F., Lanau Sanchez, Alba, Marí-Klose, Pau, Muñoz-Comet, Jacobo
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Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-025-10228-8
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Palabra clave:Child poverty
Migrant origin
Risk factors
Poverty penalty
Decomposition analysis
Spain
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spelling Migrant origin children and child poverty in Spain: a decomposition analysisArcarons, Albert F.Lanau Sanchez, AlbaMarí-Klose, PauMuñoz-Comet, JacoboChild povertyMigrant originRisk factorsPoverty penaltyDecomposition analysisSpainSouthern and Eastern European countries have historically had high child poverty rates. In the case of Spain, child poverty rates for migrant origin children, a growing population group, have remained among the highest across EU-27 countries in the last decades. Despite wide recognition among both researchers and policy makers of the scale of the problem, the factors explaining the poverty gap between migrant and native origin children remain under-researched. Applying the theoretical framework of ethnic penalties to the study of child poverty and using pooled data from the Spanish Survey on Income and Living Conditions, we explore the factors associated with the poverty penalty for three migrant origin groups of children–Ecuadorian, Moroccan, and Romanian– defined based on their parents’ country of birth. Decomposition analysis results show the poverty penalty to be highest for Moroccan origin children, followed by Romanian and Ecuadorian. Our models account for a large amount of the observed gross poverty penalties, particularly in the case of Ecuadorian origin children for whom we are able to explain it in full. The household labour market position and parental educational attainment emerge as key explanatory factors, although we do observe substantial differences in the relative weight of risk factors across groups. These findings have important policy implications and make the case for the incorporation of an understanding of migrant origin differences into the child poverty agenda.We gratefully acknowledge funding for the research project MiCyclo, which aims to improve knowledge about the migration cycle in Spain, from the National Research Agency of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Grant agreement: PID2020-114702RA-I00. We also thank the employees of the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE) for their collaboration during the data request process and colleagues for their comments on previous versions of this article in the different conferences and seminars we have presented it.Springer202520252025info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/71297http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-025-10228-8http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71297reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésChild Indicators Research. 2025 Jun;18(3):1209-35info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2020-114702RA-I00This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/712972026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Migrant origin children and child poverty in Spain: a decomposition analysis
title Migrant origin children and child poverty in Spain: a decomposition analysis
spellingShingle Migrant origin children and child poverty in Spain: a decomposition analysis
Arcarons, Albert F.
Child poverty
Migrant origin
Risk factors
Poverty penalty
Decomposition analysis
Spain
title_short Migrant origin children and child poverty in Spain: a decomposition analysis
title_full Migrant origin children and child poverty in Spain: a decomposition analysis
title_fullStr Migrant origin children and child poverty in Spain: a decomposition analysis
title_full_unstemmed Migrant origin children and child poverty in Spain: a decomposition analysis
title_sort Migrant origin children and child poverty in Spain: a decomposition analysis
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Arcarons, Albert F.
Lanau Sanchez, Alba
Marí-Klose, Pau
Muñoz-Comet, Jacobo
author Arcarons, Albert F.
author_facet Arcarons, Albert F.
Lanau Sanchez, Alba
Marí-Klose, Pau
Muñoz-Comet, Jacobo
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Marí-Klose, Pau
Muñoz-Comet, Jacobo
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Child poverty
Migrant origin
Risk factors
Poverty penalty
Decomposition analysis
Spain
topic Child poverty
Migrant origin
Risk factors
Poverty penalty
Decomposition analysis
Spain
description Southern and Eastern European countries have historically had high child poverty rates. In the case of Spain, child poverty rates for migrant origin children, a growing population group, have remained among the highest across EU-27 countries in the last decades. Despite wide recognition among both researchers and policy makers of the scale of the problem, the factors explaining the poverty gap between migrant and native origin children remain under-researched. Applying the theoretical framework of ethnic penalties to the study of child poverty and using pooled data from the Spanish Survey on Income and Living Conditions, we explore the factors associated with the poverty penalty for three migrant origin groups of children–Ecuadorian, Moroccan, and Romanian– defined based on their parents’ country of birth. Decomposition analysis results show the poverty penalty to be highest for Moroccan origin children, followed by Romanian and Ecuadorian. Our models account for a large amount of the observed gross poverty penalties, particularly in the case of Ecuadorian origin children for whom we are able to explain it in full. The household labour market position and parental educational attainment emerge as key explanatory factors, although we do observe substantial differences in the relative weight of risk factors across groups. These findings have important policy implications and make the case for the incorporation of an understanding of migrant origin differences into the child poverty agenda.
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