作者：Coulter, F; Heady, C; Lawson, C; Smith, S
作者单位：University of Bath; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This paper examines social security reform for transitional economies, using the Czech Republic as an example. Replacement of universal benefits by more generous but income-tested benefits helped the poor, while reducing government expenditure. However, it harmed those slightly above the poverty line and increased the combined marginal rates of tax and benefit withdrawal, especially for the poor. Changes to benefit withdrawal rates made before the reforms were enacted succeeded in improving ta...
作者：Bourguignon, F; Fields, G
作者单位：Cornell University
摘要：This paper examines the distributional properties of poverty measures which are discontinuous at the poverty line. It is shown that among all the additive poverty measures, only those measures with some discontinuous jump at the poverty line are such that it is optimal to allocate a given antipoverty budget either to the richest of the poor, or to the poorest of the poor, or to both. A special class of such poverty measures is an extension of the well-known P-alpha, the properties of which are...
