Manuel Flores, lecturer and researcher for the UIC Barcelona Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, recently participated in the publication of a report from the Organisation for Co-operation and Development (OECD) on the economic cost of child poverty. 

With the title “The economic costs of childhood socio-economic disability in European OECD countries,” Flores talks about the economic costs of the socioeconomic disadvantage of children in the European countries of the OECD, investigating the sector of child population at socio-economic disadvantage and its long-term effects in terms limitating opportunities, falling behind in many areas of well-being and development, their health, etc. 

The paper is based on Europe-wide survey data and explores how the childhood socio-economic disadvantage affects the labour market and evaluates the large costs due to lost employment, lost income or health, such as the costs of lost government revenue and benefit spending.

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