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Childrenś opportunities in Germany : an application using multidimensional measures
Bartels, Charlotte; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016
poverty indices using SOEP data from 1991-2012. We distinguish between parental and publicly provided childcare, which is an … increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440704
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2020
poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236841
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Intergenerational mobility of economic well-being in Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022 - This version: 31 August 2022
We estimate, for the first time, long-run trends in intergenerational economic mobility for a multitude of countries in Latin America going beyond parent-child correlations in educational attainment. We use several indicators of well-being, such as the socio-economic situation of individuals,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466616
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Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries
Alvaredo, Facundo; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2013
This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … poverty across countries and regions, an assessment of trends in these variables since the early 1980s, and a general … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010198464
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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721431
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Deprivation and the dimnensionality of welfare : a variable-selection cluster-analysis approach
Caruso, Germán; Sosa Escudero, Walter; Svarc, Marcela - 2011
the "poor/non-poor" classification in the first stage. -- Multidimensional welfare ; poverty ; factory analysis ; clusters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008772508
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Poverty alleviation and the degree of centralisation in European schemes of social assistance
Hölsch, Katja - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428548
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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962944
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Los cambios en la distribución del ingreso de Argentina entre 1998 y 2005
Ignacio Zoloa, Juan - 2011
This paper analyses the changes in inequality occurred during the period 1998 - 2005. A set of results are presented in order to contribute to a better understanding of the changes in inequality. The obtained results show that important distributive effects were hidden by the apparent observed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009267064
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Identifying income and wealth-poor households in the euro area
Müller, Philip; Schmidt, Tobias - 2015
In this paper, we analyse different measures of asset and income poverty using micro-data for 15 euro area countries … definitions of income and wealth poverty affect the number and socio-demographic characteristics of poor households, as well as … their portfolio composition and consumption expenditure. We find that adding wealth to the poverty definition mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373659