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 …

The standard poverty lines applied in empirical research tend to be problematic in terms of validity, reliability, ease … related to actual differences in the 'production of poverty' in 11 countries, as measured by the generalised budget approach … substantially higher degree of poverty than representatives of the corporatist type (Belgium, Germany, France). Poverty in the …

, pensioners are compared on their poverty rates and inequality. The redistribution paradox states that poverty will be the highest …) poverty rates are much higher than in the Netherlands (universal minimum pension). Poverty rates are higher for elderly women … inequality in income is higher for men than for women both in Belgium and in the Netherlands. In order to minimize poverty and …

The starting point in the paper is the relative concept of poverty. We will study how our picture of poverty will … change if we accept a very relative concept of poverty. The first problem we encountered was the selection of the benchmark …. A couple of alternative ways to conduct relativizations were selected. First, we applied the conventional poverty …

policies on their poverty levels. Specifically, the paper conducts multi-level regression analyses across 18 OECD countries … decrease in poverty levels among the low skilled. The negative effect of passive labor market policies (PLMP) on poverty is … only significant for the older male group. Family policies are related to a reduction in poverty for both low-skilled young …

Our study extends research on the feminization of poverty by analyzing the variation in women's, men's and feminized … poverty across affluent democracies from 1969 to 2000. Specifically, we address three issues. First, we provide more recent … estimates of adult women's and men's poverty and the ratio of women's to men's poverty with two different poverty measures. We …

We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are … decreasing recently in Japan. In Japan and Taiwan even in households cohabiting with children, the poverty rates and income … configurations differ depending on the marital status of the children. Poverty rates are higher in case of cohabiting with unmarried …