TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Longford, Nicholas T.
AU  - Nicodemo, Catia
        TI  - The Contribution of Social Transfers to the Reduction of Poverty
        PY  - 2010/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5223
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5223
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - EU-SILC database
KW  - equivalized household income
KW  - effectiveness of social transfers
KW  - potential of social transfers
KW  - poverty gap
        ER  -