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Anti‐Poverty Effectiveness of Taxes and Income Transfers in Welfare States

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This study aims to compare the anti‐poverty effectiveness of taxes and income transfers among western welfare states. It is shown that countries' poverty outcome can be decomposed into the level of market‐generated poverty, the overall level of welfare efforts, and the poverty reduction efficiency of taxes and transfers. Using the LIS microdata, the decomposition analysis suggests that welfare states differ widely with respect to the anti‐poverty effectiveness of taxes and transfers and that cross‐national variation in such effectiveness is mainly attributable to differences in the level of welfare efforts rather than in poverty reduction efficiency.

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  • Hwanjoon Kim, 2000. "Anti‐Poverty Effectiveness of Taxes and Income Transfers in Welfare States," International Social Security Review, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 53(4), pages 105-129, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:intssr:v:53:y:2000:i:4:p:105-129
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-246X.00107
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    1. Koen Caminada & Kees Goudswaard & Chen Wang & Jinxian Wang, 2021. "Antipoverty Effects of Various Social Transfers and Income Taxes Across Countries," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 154(3), pages 1055-1076, April.
    2. Miežienė Rasa & Krutulienė Sandra, 2019. "The Impact of Social Transfers on Poverty Reduction in EU Countries," TalTech Journal of European Studies, Sciendo, vol. 9(1), pages 157-175, June.

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