transfers. Sweden, for example, has the highest the level of government transfers and the lowest level of old-age income …

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 … redistribution than extremely decentralised schemes. However, for systems with a medium degree of centralisation, the hypothesis that …

five countries that experienced a period of crisis: United States, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Brazil. For each country the …This paper analyses government instruments in terms of reducing market inequality. Government redistribution, realized …

in fiscal redistribution across modern welfare states. Contrary to the assertion that there is robust evidence in support … than earnings) is positively associated with fiscal redistribution. In sum, revisiting an influential contribution to the … literature offers no support for the proposition that the structure of inequality has consequences for fiscal redistribution …

comparable data from five countries - Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Norway and the U.S. - to ask whether immigrants benefit more from …

a variety of institutional pensions schemes. The study contrasts pension system regulation in Denmark, Finland, Germany …, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom; and analyses their impact on current pension income. The main focus is analyzing the …

This paper analyses major pension system regulation in four European countries: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the … affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …

Comparative research of poverty, income inequality and the effectiveness of income transfer systems has flourished … poverty and income inequality with a special emphasis on their stability. We studied trends of poverty and income inequality … between 1980 and 1995 in nine countries representing three different ideal types of social policy. The differences in poverty …

, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States. These countries reveal variation both with respect to the … social policy goal of redistributing income. The following countries are included in the analysis: Australia, Denmark …

on redistribution across all income groups, lower, middle and upper income groups, and those in poverty; and to examine … undertaken. First, and most important, the paper offers a detailed discussion of a number of aspects of fiscal redistribution … allow us not only to measure overall redistribution, but also to explore whether redistribution has been achieved primarily …