Fuel poverty measurement consists of two independent parts: firstly, the definition of an adequate fuel poverty line …, and secondly, techniques to measure fuel poverty. This paper reviews options for the definition of fuel poverty lines and … techniques for fuel poverty measurement. Based on household data from Germany, figures that would result from different fuel …

Income inequality and poverty risks receive a lot of attention in public debates and current research. However, the … things, our results indicate that poverty risks for households with children - especially for single parents - are … population at poverty risk. …

poverty. However, since cohabitation without marriage is on the rise and since income pooling is less frequent among …, which implies that a wide range of analyses of income poverty, for instance, may be misleading. …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …