from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001 … poverty rates, rates of entry to and exit from poverty, and the duration of time spent in and out of poverty. The analysis … focuses upon comparisons between East and West Germany, by family structure, and citizenship status. Child poverty rates have …

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the … last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and … of multidimensional poverty. In addition to various poverty gap measures including the multidimensional well-being gap …

This paper analyses the duration of child poverty in Germany. In our sample, we observe the entire income history from … the individuals' birth to their coming of age at age 18. Therefore we are able to analyze dynamics in and out of poverty … poverty exit and re-entry to be correlated even after controlling for observable characteristics and also account for …

demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …

This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of … poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion …, and the influence of changing levels of substitutability between achievements on the poverty dimensions is examined. It …

contributes not only to individual but also to societal well-being. Within a novel approach we ask for multidimensional … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution … between parental child care time and income proved to be significant, but there are multidimensional regions with no …

This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using … distribution of income has become more concentrated at the top, the concentration at the top of the multidimensional well … multidimensional wellbeing at the top which has important policy implications …

This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used … a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well …