Monetary poverty and adequacy of minimum income schemes in seven major EU countries. What linkages?

The paper is structured as follows. Section 2 briefly discusses theoretical and empirical links between poverty concepts and eligibility to MI schemes. Section 3 describes the eligibility criteria followed in the seven countries. Section 4 presents the main findings of our empirical investigation: the gap between the AROP and the administrative poverty line and how this gap changes according to the household composition.