reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

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 …

, pensioners are compared on their poverty rates and inequality. The redistribution paradox states that poverty will be the highest …) poverty rates are much higher than in the Netherlands (universal minimum pension). Poverty rates are higher for elderly women … inequality in income is higher for men than for women both in Belgium and in the Netherlands. In order to minimize poverty and …

This research investigates how the poverty risk of young people changes according to their living arrangements by … youth living with their parents leads to low youth poverty in the region. However, the poverty rate among young East Asian … support from their parents transitioned to independence more quickly than their peers, and lowered the associated poverty risk …

percent of the country differences in the gender-poverty-gap. Both composition effects and country characteristics are better …

net effects of existing policies and particularly the United Kingdom's program to reduce child poverty. While best … difference in outcomes as shown by the recent British success in fighting child poverty. … States, Canada, and Europe, and Chinese Taipei-Taiwan using the LIS (Luxembourg Income Study) database, and will assess the …

This paper assesses women's poverty in 26 diverse LIS countries - five Anglophone countries, six Continental European … as post-transfer income, and when we consider absolute as well as relative poverty? (3) How do women's poverty rates …-national portrait of gender and poverty shift when we consider person-level income as well as household-level income? We conclude that …

data, we find that child poverty rates are higher in the U.S. than in 13 out of 14 other high-income nations. The poverty … differences in labor markets and welfare schemes best explain international child poverty gaps. …Children experience a higher poverty rate in the U.S. than in most comparable nations a poverty gap traceable to …

's program to reduce child poverty. While best practices may be identified, each nation must create its own set of mutually … States, Canada, and Europe using the LIS (Luxembourg Income Study) database, and especially with a focus on Greece whose data … efficient behavior. Still, policy can make a difference in outcomes as shown by the recent British success in fighting child …

deprivation. We show that the non-deprivation quasi-ordering obeys a weaker version of the principle of transfers: welfare … the ranking of distributions implied by the non-deprivation quasi-ordering. We extend the approach to the measurement of …