This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … relationship between the concentration of cash transfers net of direct taxes and their effectiveness in terms of reducing poverty …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …