Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper …

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly … in income distribution. In order to do so, we are using a decomposition of changes in inequality measures over time … in poverty and richness as well and compare them with results that were obtained by a re-weighting procedure. Our results …

Welfare states redistribute both between individuals reducing annual inequality and over the life-cycle insuring … 1984 to 2009, long-term inequality over a 20-year period is computed and then decomposed into an inter- and intra …-individual component. Results show that annual inequality is higher than long-term inequality, but redistribution is also larger annually …

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 …

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 …

. We find evidence that the overall inequality of earnings in Germany has been rising throughout the period due to both … higher permanent inequality and higher volatility. However, taking the welfare state and its institutions into account, we …

's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses … distribution of individual net worth as well as overall inequality. The present value of pension entitlements (including … results based on net worth only, inequality of our amended wealth measure is about 25 percent less. Moreover, we present …

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of …