developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show … increased likelihood of poverty. Less risk of poverty can be found among those that have supervision over the workplace, have …

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 …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal … them? And third, what impact do measures of public resources for children have on child poverty rates? …

In Europe, there are significant differences in the extent and in the structure of in-work poverty. Based on a … sufficient to avoid poverty. Further steps regard the role of the household context (needs and further income) and the effect of … and other influences on the risk of in-work poverty. …

multidimensional approaches to poverty and social exclusion, increasing concerns about reliance on nationally based income poverty …. Contrary to the situation with national income poverty measures, levels of economic vulnerability vary systematically across … experience of poverty and social exclusion in an enlarged European Union. The most effective strategy may be to take more …

At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes … rising employment on relative income poverty. This method has serious limitations. We propose a more sophisticated simulation … impact on relative income poverty of moving towards the Europe 2020 target of 75 percent of the working aged population in …

poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It … or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country … what minimum wage policies alone can achieve in the fight against in-work poverty. The route of raising minimum wages to …