Four alternative measures of the average duration of unemployment are examined with the intention of illustrating the biases inherent in the average incomplete duration of unemployment, a statistic that is often the only one reported by many statistical agencies; and the robustness of the...

This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2004, with a focus on developments since unification in 1991. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are used to estimate poverty rates, rates of entry to and exit from poverty,...