tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place … between agents on both sides of the poverty line provided they have the same labor time. This requirement is combined with … yields the following evaluation criterion: tax schemes should minimize the labor time required to reach the poverty line. We …

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 …

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 … income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a …

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 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 …

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 …