This article regards the incidence of in-work poverty and how it is reduced by the payment of social transfers in 20 … working poor which have mainly described country differences in in-work poverty, this article focuses on the question of how … such differences can be explained from a broader perspective of poverty research. In general, the results confirm the …

Review Article of J. Handler and Y. Hasenfeld's Blame Welfare: Ignore Poverty and Inequality …

This study assesses the role of social spending in relation to child poverty in European welfare states. Using macro … are targeted. We separately estimate the effect of pension benefits on child poverty, as the prevalence of … substantially reduce child poverty. Increased targeting also leads to lower poverty rates, but the effect sizes are more modest by …

We interpret social transfers broadly as a set of measures to reduce or relieve poverty, and study how well this … the countries for a range of definitions of the poverty threshold. The methods are also applied to two subpopulations of … transfers ; poverty gap …

undoubtedly represents a turning point for the country's policy against poverty. In order to provide an evaluation of its … problems such as poverty and unemployment and will therefore be a fundamental element supporting this paper's conclusions. The … findings and the study of the connecting link between poverty and unemployment, a relationship that, as it will be argued, the …