are primarily responsible for whether older women find themselves in poverty or not. Older men and women in countries with … relatively generous (or well targeted) social retirement and social transfer benefits have lower levels of poverty. A caveat of … likely to be in poverty than renters. As the value of homes and homeownership increase, housing will become an especially …

Substantial cross-national differences in poverty alleviation are well documented, but theextent to which different …-targeted provisions and means-tested benefits reduce relative economic poverty in different institutional settings. It is shown that the … poverty alleviation across countries. The study also presents a new method for estimating the anti-poverty effects of separate …

-country empirical studies have found that welfare state generosity is strongly associated with low relative poverty, but there has been … virtually no cross-national analysis of welfare state effects on absolute poverty, which is at the heart of the critics … poverty for working-age households in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States from the mid-1970s to …

the Untied States. Since a main objective of means-tested benefits is to mitigate and alleviate poverty, the comparisons … provided at levels sufficient to allow recipients to escape poverty. The long time frame of the study also gives an opportunity … have had negative consequences for their capacity to alleviate poverty, the adequacy of benefits has generally been …

overview of the development of social inequality in Central and Eastern Europe; and (b) to quantify the change of poverty rates … for leaving poverty, social transfers significantly improve the economic conditions of families in need. Without the …

Great strides have been made in reducing poverty amongst the elderly in most rich countries over the past forty years …. But pensioner poverty has not been eradicated, especially in the English-speaking nations. Poverty rates amongst older …, poverty rates rise with both age and changes in living arrangements though living alone has a larger effect for women. Poverty …

U.S. women have higher poverty rates than women in other affluent nations. In this paper I attempt to explain this … disparity by examining the effect of single motherhood, employment, and social assistance on women's poverty. With cross … of their high poverty rates. Compared to their counterparts in other Western nations, U.S. women, mothers and single …

Changes in the headcount rate are the standard metric for gauging how public transfers and taxes affect poverty. An … based on Luxembourg Income Study data for seventeen countries covering various years between 1969 and 1997. Poverty is …

investigated countries provide social assistance benefits above the EU near poverty threshold. Social assistance benefit levels …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …