This study aims to compare the anti-poverty effectiveness of taxes and income transfers among western welfare states … level of welfare efforts, and the poverty reduction efficiency of taxes and transfers. Using the LIS micro data, the … decomposition analysis suggests that welfare states differ widely in respect to the anti-poverty effectiveness of taxes and …

A standard analysis of the anti-poverty effect of taxes and income transfers is to compare pre-tax-transfer poverty and … given and ignores potential effects of taxes and transfers on pre-tax-transfer poverty. Using cross-national variation, this …