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poverty as a whole. The paper shows that the widely used Shorrocks-Index for decomposing permanent and transitory inequality … can also be acquired to describe poverty. This method overcomes certain difficulties involved in the methods of Rodgers … & Rodgers (1993). The characteristics of the proposed Poverty-Stability-Index allow for an intuitive differentiation between the …
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, affordability of energy among the poorest should receive increasing attention. Measures of fuel poverty and deprivation with respect …
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The socio-economic inequality that has been growing for some time now is poison for social cohesion and representative democracy. In order to break through the indifference that still prevails towards socio-economic inequality and make more equality possible, people must become aware that the...
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In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...
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In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution … system of meanstested income support. -- minimum wage, wage distribution ; working poor ; poverty reduction ; microsimulation …
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Which groups have particularly low pension entitlements and are therefore most at risk of poverty in old age …, unemployment, raising children or caring for relatives, all of which result in low pensions. Those who are most at risk of poverty …. In other words, those impoverished while young are most likely to remain impoverished into old age. Poverty among the …
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The development of old-age poverty has become an important topic in Germany. Contrary to most studies, a recent report … written by the scientific advisory council at the German Federal Ministry of Economy asserts that old-age poverty will not … problem of old-age poverty, and they plead in favour of further reliable research on the issue. …
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While the risk of poverty increased quite markedly around the turn of the millennium, a further but flatter increase … can be subsequently observed. The development was also accompanied by a stronger increase in the at-risk-of-poverty … which the corona pandemic influenced poverty cannot yet be assessed, as the results published so far are not comparable with …
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Recent data from EU-SILC and Destatis seemed to indicate a dramatic increase in German inequality and poverty in the …
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persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …
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