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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

-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 …