device when goverment is concerned with individual utility and poverty. Redistribution can be done using social security … poverty and utility increases the desirability of social with respect to the case when the planner only cares about utility …

This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social … government introduced support based on giving actual cash through social cash transfers aimed at reducing poverty and … of social cash transfers, nationwide extreme poverty would be 1.6 percentage points higher than otherwise. The results …

results are interpreted in terms of poverty and inequality statistics while closely looking into the assumptions of the … microsimulation models. In the first scenario a modest level of guaranteed minimum income is feasible, decreasing both poverty and … unrealistically high tax rates, especially for Italy. The impact on poverty and inequality of the HNIT scheme is markedly higher for …

poverty before sketching out some core features and approaches to the welfare state and antipoverty policies. We then focus on … the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address poverty—namely, social protection, discussing in turn … the inactive working-age population, child income support, in-work poverty, and retirement and old-age pensions. After …

gender equity, and how the system could be better designed to achieve child poverty reduction with gender equity. Our … poverty is potentially affordable, even before reduction of deadweight loss under the current system is taken in to account …

gender equity, and how the system could be better designed to achieve child poverty reduction with gender equity. Our … poverty is potentially affordable, even before reduction of deadweight loss under the current system is taken in to account …

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In … role in welfare states with aging societies. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution diverges from …

alternative institutional options: the degree of labour market flexibility and the intensity of redistribution. We show that the … (positive flexibility versus positive redistribution). …

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …