genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non-poverty …

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 …

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 …

. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household-level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan …". -- Survey data ; poverty ; labor force participation ; Central Asia …

Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed consideration of the time dimension, poverty incidence, poverty gap and … poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the first four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community … poverty intensity are measured. Overall, the ranking across countries and dimensions is relatively robust. Denmark and …

Based on a multiple spells approach, this paper studies the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany …. The results indicate that about one third of cross-sectional poverty in a given year is chronic. The characteristics that … are most closely associated with long-term poverty are economic inactivity and pensioner status, while the number of …

Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty … changes in household labour market attachment are associated with child poverty transitions in the direction expected, and in …We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British …

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes …: to weight household units by size or by needs.Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of …

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 …