The standard poverty lines applied in empirical research tend to be problematic in terms of validity, reliability, ease … related to actual differences in the 'production of poverty' in 11 countries, as measured by the generalised budget approach … substantially higher degree of poverty than representatives of the corporatist type (Belgium, Germany, France). Poverty in the …

This article introduces fiscal impoverishment as a novel framework for comparative poverty research. We invert standard … analyses of welfare state policy and household poverty by focusing not on poverty alleviation but poverty creation and … finance the public sector serve to push households (further) into poverty. We estimate that across rich democracies on average …

This study investigates the relationship between the welfare state and poverty with multiple measures of the welfare … state and poverty in an unbalanced panel of 18 Western nations from 1967 to 1997. While addressing the limitations of past … research, the analysis shows that social security transfers and public health spending significantly reduce poverty. Less …

security, poverty and social exclusion have not been eradicated. The persistence of income poverty in industrialized welfare … states casts serious doubt on the effectiveness of social security schemes in alleviating poverty. This paper explores the … poverty-alleviating power of social security in a comparative perspective on the basis of house-hold micro-data from the …

states affect the poverty rates of mothers, single mothers, and other citizens in nine Western nations (Australia, Canada … programs reduce mothers' and single mothers' poverty rates-in an absolute sense, and also how welfare states reduce their … poverty rates relative to the poverty rates of other groups (such as female non-mothers or non-single mothers). I find that …

Substantial cross-national differences in poverty alleviation are well documented, but theextent to which different …-targeted provisions and means-tested benefits reduce relative economic poverty in different institutional settings. It is shown that the … poverty alleviation across countries. The study also presents a new method for estimating the anti-poverty effects of separate …

-country empirical studies have found that welfare state generosity is strongly associated with low relative poverty, but there has been … virtually no cross-national analysis of welfare state effects on absolute poverty, which is at the heart of the critics … poverty for working-age households in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States from the mid-1970s to …

other women on three outcomes labor force participation rates, wage rates, and poverty rates, analyzing the effects of … motherhood and marital status on labor force participation rates, annual earnings, and poverty rates. After analyzing these …

poverty. Using the Luxembourg Income Study, we conduct a multilevel analysis of working-aged adult poverty across 18 affluent … Western democracies. Our index of welfare generosity has a negative effect on poverty net of individual characteristics and … structural context. For each standard deviation increase in welfare generosity, the odds of poverty decline by a factor of 2 …

Several recent studies have focused attention on the relationship between welfare states and poverty. This work has … looked primarily at relative poverty, employing concepts of welfare state generosity that are problematic. This has made it … - and poverty levels in advanced industrial democracies in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Our results strongly …