are sensitive to changes in rich persons' income and therefore allow for a more sophisticated analysis of richness. We … 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 …

that governments are capable of reducing income inequality despite countervailing behavioral adjustments. The effect is …

Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper … considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the …

German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for … distribution of income has become more concentrated at the top, the concentration at the top of the multidimensional well …-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to …

cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status – shorter individuals show a stronger …

Bislang beschränkt sich die Messung von Armut und Ungleichheit in der deutschen Armutsberichterstattung im Wesentlichen …