Arbeitspapier
Do Social-Welfare Policies Reduce Poverty? A Cross-National Assessment
Most social scientists, policy makers, and citizens who support the welfare state do so in part because they believe social-welfare programs help to reduce the incidence of poverty. Yet a growing number of critics assert that such programs in fact fail to do so, because too small a share of transfers actually reaches the poor, or because such programs create a welfare/poverty trap, or because they weaken the economy. This study assesses the effects of social-welfare policy extensiveness on poverty across 15 affluent industrialized nations over the period 1960-91, using both absolute and relative measures of poverty. The results strongly support the conventional view that social-welfare programs reduce poverty.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: LIS Working Paper Series ; No. 188
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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Armutsbekämpfung
Sozialpolitik
Wirkungsanalyse
OECD-Staaten
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Kenworthy, Lane
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
- (wo)
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Luxembourg
- (wann)
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1998
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kenworthy, Lane
- Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
Entstanden
- 1998
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