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At the margins of the welfare state : social assistance and the alleviation of poverty in Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom / Christina Behrendt.
Lippincott Library HC290.5.I5 B44 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Behrendt, Christina.
- Series:
- Cash & care
- Studies in cash & care
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Income maintenance programs--Germany.
- Income maintenance programs.
- Income maintenance programs--Sweden.
- Income maintenance programs--Great Britain.
- Great Britain.
- Sweden.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2002]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Welfare States and the Alleviation of Poverty 1
- Minimum Income Schemes and the Alleviation of Poverty 2
- Combining Institutional Information and Micro-data on Poverty 5
- Choice of Cases 6
- Chapter 2 Poverty and Poverty Alleviation in Industrialized Welfare States: What Do We Know? 13
- Poverty in Industrialized Welfare States 13
- The Redistributional Impact of the Welfare State 17
- Welfare State Efforts and the Alleviation of Poverty 25
- Unsolved Puzzles and a Possible Solution 29
- Chapter 3 Mapping the Reduction of Poverty through Minimum Income Schemes 33
- Evaluating the Effects of Minimum Income Schemes 33
- Distribution of Means-tested Benefits within the Poor Population 37
- Effectiveness of Means-tested Transfers 39
- What Can Explain the Apparent Ineffectiveness of the Welfare State? 46
- Chapter 4 Methodological Puzzles and Pitfalls in the Measurement of Poverty 53
- Why Do Low Income and Social Assistance Receipt Hardly Coincide? 53
- Is Income an Adequate Measure of Poverty? 56
- Data and Data Quality 60
- Private Households: A Simple Concept with Critical Implications 69
- The Concept of Income and Related Questions 76
- Poverty Lines 80
- A Way Out of the Methodological Problems of Poverty Research? 86
- Chapter 5 Is the Entire Population Eligible for Social Assistance Benefits? 89
- The Institutional Framework: Eligibility Rules and Means-tests 89
- Do Social Assistance Schemes Provide a Safety Net for All? 99
- Chapter 6 Do Social Assistance Schemes Provide Adequate Benefits? 101
- The Institutional Framework: Minimum Income Standards 103
- Adequacy: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study 127
- Adequacy and the Effectiveness of Social Assistance Schemes 155
- Chapter 7 Do Social Assistance Schemes Encourage Take-up? 157
- Social Assistance Schemes and the Causes of Non-take-up 158
- The Administration of Social Assistance and the Question of Take-up 165
- Empirical Evidence on the Take-up of Social Assistance Benefits 191
- Non-take-up and the Effectiveness of Social Assistance Schemes 200
- Towards an Explanation of Poverty in Industrialized Welfare States 203
- Mending the Holes in the Social Safety Net 206
- Flawed Policies or a Flawed Measurement of Poverty? 209.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754619966
- OCLC:
- 49712177
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