particular transfer on poverty. The countries included in this study are Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the …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 …

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 …

poverty for working-age households in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States from the mid-1970s to …-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 …

decades in a comparative perspective. The countries included in the study are Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and … 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 …

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 …

States, Canada, and Europe using the LIS (Luxembourg Income Study) database, and especially with a focus on Greece whose data …'s program to reduce child poverty. While best practices may be identified, each nation must create its own set of mutually … poverty. …

We analyze the impact of the state on the incidence of poverty in the working-age population of 14 advanced capitalist … democracies between 1970 and 1997 using an unbalanced panel design. We utilize poverty measures based on micro-level data from the … that economic factors including de-industrialization and unemployment largely explain pre-tax, pre-transfer poverty rates …

This study aims to compare the anti-poverty effectiveness of taxes and income transfers among western welfare states …. It is shown that a country's poverty outcome can be decomposed into the level of market-generated poverty, the overall … level of welfare efforts, and the poverty reduction efficiency of taxes and transfers. Using the LIS micro data, the …

A standard analysis of the anti-poverty effect of taxes and income transfers is to compare pre-tax-transfer poverty and … post-tax-transfer poverty. A critical shortcoming of the standard approach is that it treats pre-tax-transfer poverty as … given and ignores potential effects of taxes and transfers on pre-tax-transfer poverty. Using cross-national variation, this …

Using the notion of the poverty regime as a heuristic device, this paper examines the safety nets of several members of … enlargement of the European Union for the creation of a common safety net? Initially several dimensions of the poverty regime are … employed to compare the safety nets. Subsequently we analyze the incidence of poverty and poverty reduction for the entire …