inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

welfare regime types, the ‘Liberal’ US, ‘the ‘Corporatist’ Germany and the ‘Social-Democratic’ Netherlands. That paper was … analysis of the level of deprivation and pay less attention to income poverty and inequality. Because we consider deprivation … poverty but performs less well in equalising levels of deprivation. The results also show that the immature Southern welfare …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West … Germany 1983. It is a part of a joint US and German research project comparing equivalence scales with consistent methods and … Germany based on actual available individual consumption expenditure data shows a variety of interesting results with regard …

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for … based on a revealed preference consumption approach for West Germany and the United States. We review several approaches and …

of the poverty line. …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …

result of the conflict, as well as a lack of improvement since then, at least for those in poverty who are highly vulnerable …