Yet the Poorest, Relatively Speaking: Italian Poverty Rates in International Perspective

Few works more than Esping-Andersen's 'Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism' have drawn researchers' attention on institutional features that characterize the diverse typologies of welfare regimes; yet the impact of the different institutional settings on income distribution has mostly been taken for granted. This paper uses cross nationally comparable data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to assess the performance of Italian Welfare against that of other countries of the 'conservative' cluster (Germany, France and the Netherlands), as well as countries of the 'liberal' (United Kingdom) an... Mehr ...