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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 …
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Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic … developments during the crisis but at least an increase of persons, who stayed within the poverty region, occurred between 2008 and …
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Using the 2015 introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany as a quasi-experiment, I investigate the effects of wage increases on personality. The degree to which each worker's wage is intended to be affected by the reform is used as an instrument for the relative increase in the worker's...
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We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...
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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 interdepend-ent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and … income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a …
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We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …
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Analysen zu Einkommensungleichheit, Armut und Mobilität in Deutschland basieren überwiegend auf den Mikrodaten der … Bildungscharakteristika gibt, was einen nicht unerheblichen Einfluss auf Ausmaß und Struktur von Ungleichheit und Armut haben kann. Während in …
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Analysen zu Einkommensungleichheit, Armut und Mobilität in Deutschland basieren überwiegend auf den Mikrodaten der … Bildungscharakteristika gibt, was einen nicht unerheblichen Einfluss auf Ausmaß und Struktur von Ungleichheit und Armut haben kann. Während in …
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This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions. While most of the existing measures are affected by changes in marginal distributions, this paper proposes a framework that is based on individuals' relative positions in the...
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latent-growth-curve modeling based on household panels show that participatory inequality by parental income is already large … research on (political) inequality in youth and childhood. …
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