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.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: LIS Working Paper Series ; No. 188
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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Armutsbekämpfung
Sozialpolitik
Wirkungsanalyse
OECD-Staaten
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Kenworthy, Lane
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
- (where)
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Luxembourg
- (when)
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1998
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Kenworthy, Lane
- Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
Time of origin
- 1998
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