The welfare state and antipoverty policy in rich countries

Handbook of Income Distribution

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 2063-2139

  Marx, Ive ^a,b   Nolan, Brian ^c   Olivera, Javier ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Antipoverty policy; Poverty; Redistribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920532484     PISSN: 15740056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59429-7.00024-8     Document Type: Chapter

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