Poverty alleviation is an important objective of European countries and of the United States. If these ‘rich' states … offer elaborate systems of income maintenance, why is there still a considerable amount of poverty? And why are anti-poverty …-country research papers on anti-poverty policy. Two former papers analyzed the effects of social transfers on both poverty levels and …

US poverty is much higher than poverty in Europe when a relative poverty measure is used. Using an absolute poverty … measurement method, the picture looks different: poverty in some European countries is higher. This paper estimates poverty rates …) and the European Union (relative) to all the countries. The differences in poverty levels, both in time and between the 16 …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place … between agents on both sides of the poverty line provided they have the same labor time. This requirement is combined with … yields the following evaluation criterion: tax schemes should minimize the labor time required to reach the poverty line. We …

of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations … address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …

in society. Given this ideological shift, the Official poverty measure, which is based on the premise that all families …-size-specific threshold, appears to have less policy relevance now than in prior years. In this paper we present a new concept of poverty …, Self-Reliance poverty, which is based on the ability of a family, using its own resources, to support a level of …

Official poverty methodologies differ from other poverty measurement methods in the sense that the official ones are … has the tradition and the practice to use relative poverty as "official" poverty estimates (Common Laeken indicators); the … USA use an objective method to estimate official poverty (Orshansky indicator). Although related, each approach portrays …