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Die sozioökonomischen Folgen eines einkommensabhängigen Kindergeldzuschlags : eine Mikrosimulation der "Grünen Kindergrundsicherung"

Otto, Birgit - 2002

Versuch, die Armut von Kindern unabhängig von den Ursachen der familiären Armut sowie von der Bedarfssituation der anderen … und Beruf miteinander zu vereinbaren und somit familiäre Armut zu vermeiden, wird durch einen einkommensabhängigen …

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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2002

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...

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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

Der im Ausland geborene Teil der in Deutschland lebenden Bevölkerung besteht aus Ausländern und Aussiedlern, die aus … osteuropäischen Ländern nach Deutschland emigriert sind. Während die erste Gruppe mit Problemen konfrontiert ist, die aus dem typisch … deutschen Pass. Etwa die Hälfte der Immigranten, die seit 1984 nach Deutschland kamen, sind der Gruppe der Aussiedler …

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The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality

Biewen, Martin - 2002

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes the dynamics of equivalent income in Germany in the eighties and nineties. Special emphasis is given to the separation of permanent and transitory components, the persistence of transitory shocks and their implications...

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Some aspects of the social transition processes in Hungary and East Germany: Income inequality and poverty

Spéder, Zsolt - 1995

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Armut von Erwerbstätigen im europäischen Vergleich: eine Analyse unter Berücksichtigung des Einkommensverteilungsprozesses

Lohmann, Henning - 2009

In Europe, there are significant differences in the extent and in the structure of in-work poverty. Based on a comparison of 20 countries the present study analyses to what extent this is due to the differences in the institutional framework conditions of a given country. The analy-ses are based...

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Smoothed Income Poverty in European Countries

Kuchler, Birgit; Goebel, Jan - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to obtain by combining two longitudinal perspectives a more detailed national picture of poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the first four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed...

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New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Micklewright, John - 2007

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 the last thirty to forty years? We draw attention to...

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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2004

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state...

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Missing Income Data in the German SOEP: Incidence, Imputation and its Impact on the Income distribution

Grabka, Markus M.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2003

This paper deals with the question of selectivity of missing data on income questions in large panel surveys due to item-non-response and with imputation as one alternative strategy to cope with this issue. In contrast to cross-section surveys, the imputation of missing values in panel data can...

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