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Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe

The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to poor families with children are often meagre or not available at all. The paper examines the effect of family transfers (used broadly to include contributory family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, the paper first assesses the distributional impact of existing family transfers and then explores the scope for policy reforms. By way of illustration, the effects of universal child benefit schemes similar to those in Britain, Denmark and Sweden are simulated. The paper concludes with a discussion of key findings and policy implications.

Language: Englisch

Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1509

Classification: Wirtschaft
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access

Subject: child poverty
social transfers
fiscal benefits
south Europe
microsimulation
Kinder
Armut
Familienpolitik
Familienleistungsausgleich
Reform
Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse
Simulation
Griechenland
Italien
Spanien
Portugal

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): Matsaganis, Manos
Levy, Horacio
Mercader-Prats, Magda
Toso, Stefano
O'Donoghue, Cathal
Coromaldi, Manuela
Rodrigues, Carlos Farinha
Tsakloglou, Panos

Event: Veröffentlichung

(who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

(where): Bonn

(when): 2005

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20808

Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET

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Matsaganis, Manos
Levy, Horacio
Mercader-Prats, Magda
Toso, Stefano
O'Donoghue, Cathal
Coromaldi, Manuela
Rodrigues, Carlos Farinha
Tsakloglou, Panos
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

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