%0 Report
        %A Longford, Nicholas T.
%A Nicodemo, Catia
        %T The Contribution of Social Transfers to the Reduction of Poverty
        %D 2010
        %8 2010 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 5223
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5223
        %X 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.
        %K EU-SILC database
%K equivalized household income
%K effectiveness of social transfers
%K potential of social transfers
%K poverty gap