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The costs of natural gas dependency : price shocks, inequality, and public policy

Kröger, Mats; Longmuir, Maximilian; Neuhoff, Karsten; … - 2022

Natural gas prices in Germany saw a strong increase at the end of 2021, subsequently worsening with the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, raising concerns about the distributional consequences. Our study shows that low-income households are affected the most by the natural gas price...

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

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002 - This version: 17 July 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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Armut von Erwerbstätigen im europäischen Vergleich : eine Analyse unter Berücksichtigung des Einkommensverteilungsprozesses

Lohmann, Henning - 2009

In Europa bestehen deutliche Unterschiede im Ausmaß und in der Struktur von Armut von Erwerbstätigen. Die vorliegende … Erwerbseinkommen einer Person ausreichend ist, um Armut zu vermeiden. In weiteren Schritten werden der Haushaltskontext (Bedarf und … umfassenden Perspektive ist es möglich zu klären, inwieweit Armut von Erwerbstätigen vor allem am Arbeitsmarkt entsteht oder auf …

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New directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty

Jenkins, Stephen (contributor); … - 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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The role of visible wealth for deprivation

Bertram-Hümmer, Veronika; Baliki, Ghassan - 2014

Motivated by the lack of literature linking actual to perceived relative deprivation, this paper assesses the role of visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on household survey data that includes unique information...

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Distributional impacts of climate mitigation policies : a meta-analysis

Ohlendorf, Nils; Jakob, Michael; Minx, Jan C.; … - 2018

Understanding the distributional impacts of market-based climate policies is crucial to design economically efficient climate change mitigation policies that are socially acceptable and avoid adverse impacts on the poor. Empirical studies that examine the distributional impacts of carbon pricing...

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Income-dependent equivalence scales and choice theory implications for poverty measurement

Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten - 2022

Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their reduced ability to share goods within the household. This...

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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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