The Effect of Social Transfers in Western Europe: An Empirical Analysis of the Countries Using Generalized Lorenz Curves

Publikations-Art

Zeitschriftenbeitrag

Autoren

Hölsch, K.

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Veröffentlicht in

Journal of Income Distribution

Band/Volume

12/1 -2

Seite (von - bis)

83 - 115

Schlagworte

Centralisation, Classification, Inequality, Redistribution, Social Assistance

This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European Schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify the systems according to regulatory arrangements and degree of centralisation, respectively. Subsequently, the distributive impacts of five selected EU systems are calculated on the basis of LIS data and their relationship to class assignment is investigated. Download: ftp://ftp.zew.de/pub/zew-docs/dp/dp0251.pdf