abstract: 'Using relative poverty measures based on micro-level data from the

  Luxembourg Income Study, in conjunction with pooled time-series data for

  14 advanced capitalist democracies between 1970 and 1997, the authors

  analyze separately the rate of pretax/transfer poverty and the reduction

  in poverty achieved by systems of taxes and transfers. Socioeconomic

  factors, including de-industrialization and unemployment, largely

  explain pre-tax/transfer poverty rates of the working-age population in

  these advanced capitalist democracies. The extent of redistribution

  (measured as poverty reduction via taxes and transfers) is explained

  directly by welfare state generosity and constitutional structure

  (number of veto points) and the strength of the political left, both in

  unions and in government.'
affiliation: 'Moller, S (Corresponding Author), Univ N Carolina, Dept Sociol, Chapel
  Hill, NC 27599 USA.

  Univ N Carolina, Dept Sociol, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA.'
author: Moller, S and Bradley, D and Huber, E and Nielsen, F and Stephens, JD
author-email: moller@email.unc.edu
author_list:
- family: Moller
  given: S
- family: Bradley
  given: D
- family: Huber
  given: E
- family: Nielsen
  given: F
- family: Stephens
  given: JD
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.2307/3088901
eissn: 1939-8271
files: []
issn: 0003-1224
journal: AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
keywords-plus: 'INCOME INEQUALITY; TIME; DEINDUSTRIALIZATION; GLOBALIZATION;

  INSTITUTIONS; REGRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; EQUALITY; POLICIES; DUALISM'
language: English
month: FEB
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '98'
orcid-numbers: Moller, Stephanie/0000-0002-8239-719X
pages: 22-51
papis_id: 28d1569d7574a40a7b005f570e9eb499
ref: Moller2003determinantsrelative
times-cited: '195'
title: Determinants of relative poverty in advanced capitalist democracies
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000222055600002
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '103'
volume: '68'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2003'