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 …

of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations … address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …

This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income …. Overall, the cross-national variation in the disposable income of disadvantaged children is comprised equally of variation in … market and transfer income (with the two negatively correlated). The English-speaking countries stand out as all having …

measures of post-government income distribution. This paper contributes to this assessment by calculating the effect of … government policy on the distribution of income by adjusting income not only for taxes paid and social transfers received, but … income inconsistently accounts for these expenses; such inconsistencies result in biased measures of post-government income …

significant. -- Poverty ; poverty lines ; budget method ; social security ; welfare regimes ; institutions …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 …