High welfare dependency and poverty rate among lone mothers prompted a workfare reform of the Norwegian welfare system … easing the government’s financial burden – but also reduced poverty. …

We address the problem of ranking distributions of opportunity sets in terms of poverty. In order to accomplish this … task, we identify a suitable notion of ‘multidimensional poverty line’ and we characterize axiomatically several poverty … rankings of opportunity profiles. Among them, the Head-Count and the Opportunity-Gap poverty rankings, which are the natural …

welfare evaluation criteria we adopt the Gini Social Welfare function and the Poverty-Adjusted Gini Social Welfare function … the poverty line complemented by a 10% wage subsidy or – depending on the social welfare criterion – a more generous … unconditional transfer (100% of the poverty line). The reforms can be financed by proportionally increasing the current marginal tax …