The effectiveness of minimum income benefits in poverty reduction in Spain
| dc.contributor.author | Ayala Cañón, Luis | |
| dc.contributor.author | Arranz Muñoz, José María | |
| dc.contributor.author | García Serrano, Carlos | |
| dc.contributor.author | Martínez Virto, Lucía | |
| dc.contributor.department | Sociología y Trabajo Social | es_ES |
| dc.contributor.department | Soziologia eta Gizarte Lana | eu |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-17T12:50:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-22T23:00:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description.abstract | One of the greatest peculiarities of the Spanish system of minimum income benefits is its complex organisation. There is a wide variety of specific means-tested benefits whose management and financing depend on the central government. They are designed to protect different contingencies, providing very different levels of protection. On the other hand, the general risk of poverty is covered by regional governments without any coordination and financing from the central government. In this article, we provide a picture of the possibilities and limits of the current set of welfare benefits, focusing especially on its effectiveness in terms of reducing poverty. Our findings show that most benefits are clearly insufficient to cover the risk of poverty in terms of both incidence and intensity. The results show the need for the redesign of the system to better articulate existing benefits in order to prevent new forms of poverty and to respond to emergency situations. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The authors acknowledge financial support from the European Commission and the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality (Review of the Minimum Income schemes in Spain from the perspective of cost‐effectiveness, VS/2015/0180). Luis Ayala acknowledges financial support from the Comunidad de Madrid Project 'Desigualdad, pobreza e igualdad de oportunidades' (H2019/HUM‐5793). Lucía Martínez acknowledges financial support from Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (CSO2014‐51901‐P). | en |
| dc.embargo.lift | 2022-06-22 | |
| dc.embargo.terms | 2022-06-22 | |
| dc.format.extent | 40 p. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/ijsw.12447 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1468-2397 (Electronic) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/39441 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.publisher | Wiley | en |
| dc.publisher | International Journal of Social Welfare | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal of Social Welfare, 2020, 1-18 | en |
| dc.relation.projectID | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//CSO2014-51901-P/ES/ | |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12447 | |
| dc.rights | © 2020 Akademikerförbundet SSR (ASSR) and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | en |
| dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.subject | Minimum income benefits | en |
| dc.subject | Poverty | en |
| dc.subject | Poverty reduction | en |
| dc.subject | Mediterranean welfare states | en |
| dc.subject | Spain | en |
| dc.title | The effectiveness of minimum income benefits in poverty reduction in Spain | en |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion | |
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