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United States Poverty In A Cross-National Context, Timothy Smeeding, Lee Rainwater, Gary Burtles
United States Poverty In A Cross-National Context, Timothy Smeeding, Lee Rainwater, Gary Burtles
Center for Policy Research
In this paper we use cross-national comparisons made possible by the LIS to examine America’s experience in maintaining a low poverty rate. We compare the effectiveness of United States antipoverty policies to that of similar polices elsewhere in the industrialized world. If lessons can be learned from cross-national comparisons, there is much that can be learned about antipoverty policy by American voters and policymakers. The United States has one of the highest poverty rates of all the countries participating in the LIS, whether poverty is measured using comparable absolute or relative standards for determining who is poor. Although the high …
Social Protection For The Poor In The Developed World: The Evidence From Lis, Timothy Smeeding, Katherine Ross
Social Protection For The Poor In The Developed World: The Evidence From Lis, Timothy Smeeding, Katherine Ross
Center for Policy Research
This paper presents data and analysis on the antipoverty effectiveness of safety nets in eight rich nations using data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). We find that national safety nets are quite varied and that the most expensive ones (in terms of budgetary cost) are also the most effective. The paper concludes with some suggestions for the construction of effective safety nets in developing nations.
American Income Inequality In A Cross-National Perspective: Why Are We So Different?, Timothy M. Smeeding
American Income Inequality In A Cross-National Perspective: Why Are We So Different?, Timothy M. Smeeding
Center for Policy Research
Increasingly the rich nations of the world face a common set of social and economic issues: the cost of population aging, a growing number of single parent families, the growing majority of two-earner families, increasing numbers of immigrants from poorer nations, and in particular, rising economic inequality generated by skill-based technological change, international trade and other factors. All of these nations have also designed systems of social protection to shield their citizen against the risk of a fall in economic status due to unemployment, divorce, disability, retirement, and death of a spouse. The interaction of these economic and demographic forces …