redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty … unit subsidies limit the redistributive, poverty and inequality impacts of even the most targeted social assistance …

recently and thus cannot explain the rising welfare receipt. Following theoretical predictions, the probability that a rational …

. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and … labour markets. Moreover, the paper highlights the knowledge gaps with regard to the longer-term and gender-specific welfare …

-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …

The poverty reduction potential of national social assistance programs in eight Central and Eastern European countries … higher effectiveness in reducing poverty. Unlike Western Europe, no trade-off between extensiveness and benefit generosity or …

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 …

This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the … poverty reducing as the one in force (or more in some dimensions), and a generator of greater welfare. …

of consumption are embedded in welfare evaluations of respondents. More precisely, we find that the formalized … relationship between welfare-retaining aggregate family incomes across different family types, suggested by Donaldson and Pendakur …

's and overall welfare levels, at a plausible degree of economies of scale (i. e., Buhmann et al.'s · > 0.65) the poverty …In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition … approach. This method differentiates between various social groups in the sense that for each group a separate poverty line is …