A prime objective for welfare state activities is to take action to enhance population health and decrease mortality risks. Poverty has for several centuries been seen as a key social risk factor in these respects. Consequently, the fight against poverty has historically been at the forefront of...

This paper uses data from the Luxembourg Income Study to analyse cross-national and cross-temporal poverty risks in eleven western countries. Our analyses are embedded in the tradition of welfare state research. Despite a hundred years of welfare state efforts, at the beginning of the 21st...

LIS database is used to examine the extent to which countries differ in the degree of market dependence (measured for example through earnings), and whether different cluster can be distinguished based on different types of welfare state models.

This paper examines the increase in inequality of income distribution that developed in the 1980's in five western societies. Three possible causal factors are examined, with some surprising result. Cross national variations in level and changes of inequality are also examined.

A cooperative comprehensive study by a group of researchers under the Luxembourg Income Study, aimed at summarizing the impact of noncash income on living standards and poverty in seven western nations. Emphasis in data analysis is placed on the life cycle perspective. The study also focuses on...

A bottom-line of the interest in welfare state programs and cross-national variations in the pattern, size and structure of various social policies, is that we expect that the welfare state is an institution that greatly affects our lives and well-being. A further assumption is that this impact...

This project employs the theory of equality of opportunity, described in Roemer's book (Equality of Opportunity, Harvard University Press, 1998), to compute the extent to which tax-and-transfer regimes in ten countries equalize opportunities among citizens for income acquisition. Roughly...

This project employs the theory of opportunity, described in Roemer''s book (Equality of Opportunity, Harvard University Press, 1998), to compute the extent to which tax-and-transfer regimes in ten countries equalize opportunities among citizens for income acquisition. Roughly speaking, equality...