In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … ratherineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of … poor material conditions such as subjective poverty or low relative value of wealth significantly increase the probability … analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …

receiving welfare payments was about twice as high as the respective share for the entire population. Poverty head count rates … (based on a poverty threshold of 50 percent of median equivalent income) clearly increased over this period from about 10 …

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or … across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the _rst four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community … Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed consideration of the time dimension, poverty incidence, poverty gap and … poverty intensity are measured. Overall, the ranking across countries and dimensions is relatively robust. Denmark and …

Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of 'poverty' and inequality' and …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

This paper reviews research about the intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries. In order … to make our survey manageable, we restrict attention to studies that consider the relationship between parental poverty …-life chances, and that this impact is not wholly explained by other factors that are themselves correlated with childhood poverty …

German Pension Insurance Office on a large cohort of pensioners to find out how the old-age poverty rate would be affected by …