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Labour income, social transfers and child poverty
Bradbury, Bruce; Jäntti, Markus; Lindahl, Lena - 2017 - Version: July 2017
This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the...
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Differences that matter : social policy and the working poor in the United States and Canada
Zuberi, Dan - 2006
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At the margins of the welfare state : social assistance and the alleviation of poverty in Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom
Behrendt, Christina - 2002
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Assessing the social welfare effects of government transfer programs : some international comparisons
Kakwani, Nanak; Wang, Xiaobing; Xu, Jing; Yue, Ximing - 2020
ication of a poverty line or particular poverty measures . The paper introduces three alternative principles of targeting …
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Deep and extreme child poverty in rich and poor nations : lessons from Atkinson for the fight against child poverty
Cai, Yixia; Smeeding, Timothy M. - In: Italian economic journal : official peer-reviewed … 6 (2020) 1, pp. 109-128
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Deep and extreme child poverty in rich and poor nations : lessons from Atkinson for the fight against child poverty
Cai, Yixia; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2019 - (Version: September 4th, 2019)
The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in … different components of household income and other resources on child deep-poverty rates to examine the role of the market and … poverty reduction. Overall, middle-income nations have witnessed continuous reductions in their extreme child poverty rates …
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The effectiveness of social protection in five African countries through normal times and times of crisis
Gasior, Katrin; Tasseva, Iva V.; Wright, Gemma Clare - 2022
We study the effectiveness of social protection benefits in reducing income and consumption poverty in five sub … benefits and their poverty-reducing effects in each country. Second, we study the ability of benefit automatic stabilizers to …. Although the coverage of benefits is fairly high in Ghana and Zambia, the poverty-reducing impact of benefits in all five …
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Reassessing the EU 2020 poverty target an analysis of EU-SILC 2009
Maître, Bertrand; Nolan, Brian; Whelan, Christopher T. - 2012
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Child poverty and material deprivation in the European Union during the Great Recession
Chzhen, Yekaterina - 2014
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The impact of pensions, transfers and taxes on child poverty in Europe : the role of size, pro-poorness and child orientation
Diris, Ron; Vandenbroucke, Frank; Verbist, Gerlinde - In: Socio-economic review 15 (2017) 4, pp. 745-775
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