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-temporal changes in poverty from year 1978 to 2003. Results are decomposed by region and household types, and the bootstrap method is … have the highest poverty risk. Most striking is a huge regional divide in poverty which only narrows slightly over the … period under investigation: the incidence and the intensity of poverty are substantially higher in the New states. A …
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Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …
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Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increasing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2007, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …
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Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that the woman's utility is higher if her husband is alive. Using self-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel...
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Lifespan psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To …
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This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...
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The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models … provide empirical evidence about the sensitivity of the welfare orderings to different normative principles embodied in these … labor supply model. We use this preference information to construct welfare orderings of households according to the …
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