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Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility

Jenkins, Stephen (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002 - This version: 17 July 2002

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 USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

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Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility

Jenkins, Stephen; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2003

how it was possible both for "the poor" to have fared badly relatively to "the rich" in the USA during the 1980s (when … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

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The dynamics of child poverty : Britain and Germany compared

Jenkins, Stephen; Schluter, Christian; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000 - Revised November 2000

We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty persistence is greater, and poverty exit rates in...

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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany

Jenkins, Stephen; Schluter, Christian - 2002

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...

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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices from complex survey data

Biewen, Martin (contributor); Jenkins, Stephen (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany

Jenkins, Stephen; Schluter, Christian - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437043

Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices from complex survey data

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2003 - This version: 11 April 2003

Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the calculations for the i.i.d. case when compared to previous...

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Child poverty dynamics in seven nations

Bradbury, Bruce; Jenkins, Stephen; Micklewright, John - 2000

This paper compares child poverty dynamics cross-nationally using panel data from seven nations: the USA, Britain … transition has led to a much higher degree of mobility. Interestingly, the USA, which has the highest level of relative poverty …Der vorliegende Beitrag vergleicht die Armutsdynamik bei Kindern mithilfe von Paneldaten aus sieben Ländern: USA …

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