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The Contribution of Social Transfers to the Reduction of Poverty

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  • Longford, Nicholas T.

    (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

  • Nicodemo, Catia

    (University of Oxford)

Abstract

We interpret social transfers broadly as a set of measures to reduce or relieve poverty, and study how well this purpose is served in the countries that participated in the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions in 2007. Motivated by the findings, we characterise a social transfer system in a country by its potential and effectiveness, and compare the countries for a range of definitions of the poverty threshold. The methods are also applied to two subpopulations of household types.

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  • Longford, Nicholas T. & Nicodemo, Catia, 2010. "The Contribution of Social Transfers to the Reduction of Poverty," IZA Discussion Papers 5223, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    • Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp5223
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    Cited by:

    1. Watson, Dorothy & Maître, Bertrand, 2013. "Social Transfers and Poverty Alleviation in Ireland, 2004-2011," Research Series, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), number BKMNEXT248.
    2. Christina Steinbacher, 2024. "The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 57(2), pages 353-378, June.
    3. Nuno Baetas da Silva & João Sousa Andrade, 2016. "The relationship between social transfers and poverty reduction: A nonparametric approach for the EU-27," GEMF Working Papers 2016-09, GEMF, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra.

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    Keywords

    EU-SILC database; equivalized household income; effectiveness of social transfers; potential of social transfers; poverty gap;
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    JEL classification:

    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • C83 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Survey Methods; Sampling Methods

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