patterns of convergence and divergence of European minimum income schemes in the period 1992/2001-2012. We expand on previous … studies on convergence of social assistance schemes in at least three ways. First, this paper provides a recent and detailed … contextualize our findings with regard to convergence and to clarify the underlying policy measures. Finally this paper covers a …

measured with national poverty lines, the crisis seems to have halted, but not (yet) substantially reversed the convergence …

large increases in minimum income benefits has been pursued, leading to a remarkable convergence of relative benefit levels. …

convergence, especially among EU countries. Besides, we observe that high ‘benefit decommodification’ is consistent with high ‘in …