Poverty alleviation and the degree of centralisation in European schemes of social assistance

Katja Hölsch and Margit Kraus

In this paper, the relationship between the degree of centralisation and the distributive outcomes in European schemes of social assistance is investigated. For this purpose, a scheme of classification suitable for grouping the EU15 schemes except for Luxembourg according to features related to centralisation is established and an indicator for centralisation is developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated for five selected EU systems and the linkage of their distributive impacts to the degree of centralisation is examined.

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Year of publication:	March 2003
Authors:	Hölsch, Katja ; Kraus, Margit
Publisher:	Mannheim : ZEW
Subject:	Social Assistance \| Classification \| Centralisation \| Poverty \| Redistribution \| Sozialpolitik \| Social policy \| Umverteilung \| Zentralisierung \| Centralization \| Föderalismus \| Federalism \| Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment \| Armut \| Einkommensverteilung \| Income distribution \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| EU-Staaten \| EU countries

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 41 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	ZEW discussion papers. - Mannheim : ZEW, ZDB-ID 2125128-9. - Vol. no. 03-16
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/24818 [Handle]
Classification:	I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; I38 - Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; H53 - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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