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Equity-regarding poverty measures : differences in needs and the role of equivalence scales
Ebert, Udo - 2008 - rev.
The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in … the population. It derives the implications of a between-type regressive transfer principle for poverty measures, for the … choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881024
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Labour income, social transfers and child poverty
Bradbury, Bruce; Jäntti, Markus; Lindahl, Lena - 2017 - Version: July 2017
This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011687863
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Universal child allowances in 14 middle income countries : options for policy and poverty reduction
Evans, Martin; Hidalgo, Alejandra; Wang, Mei - 2018
children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011870167
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A fresh look at an old question : is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?
McKnight, Abigail - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289926
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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - (revised in April 2016)
the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453984
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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP) : an introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2014 - This Version: October 30th, 2014
consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428804
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Poverty alleviation and the degree of centralisation in European schemes of social assistance
Hölsch, Katja (contributor); Kraus, Margit (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002422190
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Relative income poverty rates and poverty alleviation via tax/benefit systems in 49 LIS countries, 1967 2016
Caminada, Koen; Wang, Jinxian; Goudswaard, Kees Pieter; … - 2019
Most welfare states design their tax/benefit system to combat income poverty. Some countries are more effective in … poverty alleviation than others. What can explain these variations in outcomes and effectiveness? And has the redistributive … transfers and income taxes in alleviating poverty. We focus on 49 LIS-countries for the period 1967-2016. We compare relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009221
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Deep and extreme child poverty in rich and poor nations : lessons from Atkinson for the fight against child poverty
Cai, Yixia; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2019 - (Version: September 4th, 2019)
The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in … different components of household income and other resources on child deep-poverty rates to examine the role of the market and … poverty reduction. Overall, middle-income nations have witnessed continuous reductions in their extreme child poverty rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012117874
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Disentangling income inequality and the redistributive effect of taxes and transfers in 20 LIS countries over time
Caminada, Koen; Goudswaard, Kees Pieter; Wang, Chen - 2012
In most OECD countries the gap between rich and poor has widened over the past decades. This paper analyzes whether and to what extent taxes and social transfers have contributed to this trend. Has the redistributive power of different social programs changed over time? The paper contributes to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009619493