Social transfers and poverty in Europe: comparing social exclusion and targeting across welfare regimes

Massimo Baldini, Giovanni Gallo, Manuel Reverberi () and Andrea Trapani ()

Center for the Analysis of Public Policies (CAPP) from Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi"

Abstract: This paper studies whether there are systematic differences in the ability of cash transfers, belonging to different welfare systems, to reach the poor and to lift them out of poverty. We structure the analysis following the classic breakdown of the various European welfare states into welfare regimes, in search of specific features of them that can explain the variable results shown in the ability to effectively tackle economic poverty. The analysis is carried out both with a cross-sectional approach as well as using a more long-run definition of persistent poverty.

Keywords: Cash transfers; Poverty; Europe; Welfare Regimes; Persistent poverty. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H53 I3 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pages 29
Date: 2016-08
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