Bailey, Roy E; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
analyse the effects of the inter-war social security system in relieving poverty. Finally, we estimate what difference it … would have made to the extent and incidence of poverty if the post-Beveridge social security system had been in place during … the inter-war period. Our main conclusions are that the inter-war social security system had played a greater role in …