This article explores the determinants of relative market income poverty and poverty reduction in advanced industrial democracies; that is, pre-tax and transfer relative poverty and reduction in poverty rates due to the tax and transfer system. Using data from twenty countries between 1969 and...

We analyze the impact of the state on the incidence of poverty in the working-age population of 14 advanced capitalist democracies between 1970 and 1997 using an unbalanced panel design. We utilize poverty measures based on micro-level data from the Luxembourg Income Study in conjunction with...