The impact of social transfers on income poverty and material deprivation

Geranda Notten and Anne-Catherine Guio

No 16/17, ImPRovE Working Papers from Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp

Abstract: This paper develops a simulation approach to study the effects of income transfers on material deprivation. The method is applied to pre-recession and post-austerity EU-SILC data for Germany, Greece, Poland and the United Kingdom. The results show that income transfers can not only reduce income poverty but they can also substantially reduce the extent and depth of material deprivation. Changes in social transfers have therefore a two-fold effect on the Europe 2020 poverty reduction target.

Keywords: economic well-being; poverty; social exclusion; income; material deprivation; social transfers; Europe 2020 strategy; simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 I32 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-09
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