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 …

investigated countries provide social assistance benefits above the EU near poverty threshold. Social assistance benefit levels …

would focus on financial poverty: people living in households with economic resources below the level used by Eurostat (60 …% of the median in the Member State), with this being accompanied by a measure of child poverty. Social investment in … not a complete substitute for social spending. The European countries which perform best in terms of reducing poverty tend …

, social safety nets in Europe remain far below widely accepted poverty thresholds, including the EU's own official measure. …

, 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? …

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

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 …

Using the notion of the poverty regime as a heuristic device, this paper examines the safety nets of several members of … enlargement of the European Union for the creation of a common safety net? Initially several dimensions of the poverty regime are … employed to compare the safety nets. Subsequently we analyze the incidence of poverty and poverty reduction for the entire …

In the EU there is growing concern about poverty among children, and among families with children. In most OECD … countries, income poverty among children now exceeds that among the elderly, who traditionally were the demographic group most … at risk of poverty (Jäntti and Danziger, 2000). However, the policy response of most industrialized countries in the past …