the top. Wealth remains remarkably absent from the analysis of poverty and the redistributive effectiveness of welfare … of financial need among the elderly – a segment of society that is at a relatively high risk of income poverty – also … of these findings for anti-poverty and redistributive policies …

extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …

analysis in which we control for relevant characteristics. We do find evidence of higher rates of poverty among immigrants … protecting immigrants from poverty across Europe …

rising poverty. As the crisis gained momentum, the action of automatic stabilisation mechanisms built into the national tax …

Recent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a … alleviating poverty among workers, both the policy options and constraints facing Continental European policymakers are … impact on in-work poverty but in settings where wages are compressed, as in Belgium, a severe trade-off between coverage and …

government programs, including reductions in poverty, divorce rates, disability rates, and mortality rates, as well as increases …