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Labour income, social transfers and child poverty

Bradbury, Bruce; Jäntti, Markus; Lindahl, Lena - 2017 - Version: July 2017

This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the...

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Contribution of child maintenance on lone mothers' income in five welfare states

Hakovirta, Mia; Jokela, Merita - 2018

covers data from five countries: Finland, Germany, Spain, UK and the USA. Our results show that in all countries except the … and Germany. We find the highest coverage of child maintenance receipt in Finland. In the other countries, only one third … compared with the highest income quintiles, whereas in Finland, Germany and Spain more lone mothers in the low-income quintiles …

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A fresh look at an old question : is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?

McKnight, Abigail - 2015

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty reduction in four EU countries - the UK, Italy, Sweden and France. We use long time series (spanning four decades) to examine trends within countries over time and between...

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Deep and extreme child poverty in rich and poor nations : lessons from Atkinson for the fight against child poverty

Cai, Yixia; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2019 - (Version: September 4th, 2019)

The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in two clusters: Anglo–Saxon high-income countries and upper middleincome countries. We also investigate the influence of different components of household income and other...

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Income inequality developments in the great recession

Hellebrandt, Tomas - 2014

. Using data on eight advanced economies (Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and United …

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Who can (still) afford to retire early? : cross-country comparison of incomes of senior workers and young retirees using LIS data for 2007 & 2010

Petrovici, Carmen D.; Neugschwender, Jörg - 2014

The aim of this paper is to compare the economic situation of young retirees with their peers who decided to continue their working life before and during the recent economic crisis using the micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) for four countries (Greece, Spain, the UK and...

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Production of last resort support : a comparison on social assistance schemes in Europe with the notion of welfare production and the concept of social right

Kuivalainen, Susan (contributor) - 2005

This paper aims to assess the present social assistance schemes with the model of production of welfare and the concept of social right. The interest is in how different stages of social assistance schemes are linked and how schemes appear when a number of indicators are used. One of the aspects...

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The "migrant in the market" : migration and care work across six liberal welfare regimes

Lightman, Naomi - 2016

This article disaggregates high and low status care work, based on the degree of "social closure" in a given caring occupation, across six liberal welfare regimes: Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Bolstering the argument that there is a "migrant in...

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Relative income distribution in six European countries : market and disposable income

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The outcome of this process entails relevant information about...

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Pension income inequality : a cohort study in six European countries

Neugschwender, Jörg - 2014

a variety of institutional pensions schemes. The study contrasts pension system regulation in Denmark, Finland, Germany …

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