"Die Auseinandersetzung um die negative Einkommensteuer wird in der Bundesrepublik seit Beginn der 80er Jahre geführt und findet ihren aktuellen Niederschlag in der parteipolitischen Diskussion des Jahres 1994. So hat sich die FDP auf ihrem Parteitag 1994 für ein Bürgergeld ausgesprochen....

Most social scientists, policy makers, and citizens who support the welfare state do so in part because they believe social-welfare programs help to reduce the incidence of poverty. Yet a growing number of critics assert that such programs in fact fail to do so, because too small a share of...

Although the poverty rates among solo mothers vary a lot between countries there is one common feature: solo mothers perform worse in terms of financial resources compared to married or cohabiting mothers. Even in countries with low poverty rates in general, the differences in income between...

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...