's and overall welfare levels, at a plausible degree of economies of scale (i. e., Buhmann et al.'s · > 0.65) the poverty …In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition … approach. This method differentiates between various social groups in the sense that for each group a separate poverty line is …

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 … question of dimension specific targeted policies in a multidimensional polarization approach. Prominent result: compensation …

Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific …. First, it provides a holistic view on the beneficiaries and benefactors of welfare and asks how the public perception of the …

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation … between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second … step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family …

. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare … satisfaction within couples are generally small. However, satisfaction is not a direct measure of welfare. Forthis reason …

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 …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …

Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty … with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling for individual poverty status and poverty intensity. The negative … relationship between aggregate poverty and SWB is more salient in the upper segments of the income distribution and is robust to …

life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational …This publication concentrates on the complex interplay between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction. Main areas of … from 1998-2009 is examined. This study has two main goals: (1) To contribute to the interconnection between poverty, wealth …

Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income … satisfaction to construct an evidence-based poverty line. The poverty line is identified by using its assumed unique property to …-Economic Panel yields a temporally stable poverty line similar to the definition provided by the Statistical Office of the European …