Antipoverty effects of various social transfers and income taxes across countries
| Autor: | Jinxian Wang, Koen Caminada, Chen Wang, Kees Goudswaard |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Sociology and Political Science Poverty media_common.quotation_subject Income poverty Poverty reduction Public health General Social Sciences Welfare state Total population Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Human geography Unemployment Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Economics Demographic economics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Social Indicators Research, 154(3), 1055-1076 |
| Popis: | Most welfare states design their tax/benefit-system to combat income poverty. This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social transfers and income taxes in alleviating poverty. We use micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine the antipoverty effect of social transfers and income taxes. Our data also allow us to decompose the trajectory of the market income poverty to disposable income poverty into 7 different benefits, income taxes and social contributions. On average across 49 countries, 15 percent of the total population is lifted out of poverty via tax/benefit-systems. As far as specific social programs are concerned, only three programs account for the bulk of total poverty reduction: old-age/disability/survivor scheme (81%), social programs for family and children (14%) and the unemployment scheme (8%). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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