reform succeeds or fails depends largely on what happens in big cities, where poverty and welfare receipt are most …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … reduction in four EU countries - the UK, Italy, Sweden and France. We use long time series (spanning four decades) to examine … relationship between the concentration of cash transfers net of direct taxes and their effectiveness in terms of reducing poverty …

This article studies the impact of design characteristics of in-work benefits on employment and poverty in an … analysis, numerous trade-offs are uncovered: not only between employment and poverty goals, but also within employment … incentives itself (extensive vs. intensive margin). Taking account of behavioural reactions attenuates the impact on poverty …