Publication:

Setting adequacy standards: how governments define minimum incomes (1998)

Author(s): Veit-Wilson J

    Abstract: Study of what governments use as the standards by which to set minimum incomes, reporting on the only ten countries found in 1990s to use specific instruments related to some conception of the minimum level of living to be achieved. Originated term 'minimum income standard' now widely used.

      • Number of Pages: 142
      • Publisher: Policy Press
      • Publication type: Authored book
      • Bibliographic status: Published

        Keywords: Income maintenance; poverty theory; social security.

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        Professor John Veit-Wilson
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