The Contribution of Social Transfers to the Reduction of Poverty

27 Pages Posted: 12 Oct 2010

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Nicholas T. Longford

De Montfort University

Catia Nicodemo

University of Oxford - Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation; University of Oxford - Department of Economics

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.

Keywords: effectiveness of social transfers, equivalized household income, EU-SILC database, potential of social transfers, poverty gap

JEL Classification: I32, C83

Suggested Citation

Longford, Nicholas T. and Nicodemo, Catia, The Contribution of Social Transfers to the Reduction of Poverty. IZA Discussion Paper No. 5223, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1690041 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1690041

Nicholas T. Longford (Contact Author)

De Montfort University ( email )

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Catia Nicodemo

University of Oxford - Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation ( email )

Oxford
United Kingdom

University of Oxford - Department of Economics ( email )

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Oxford, OX1 3UQ
United Kingdom

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