The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is a rotational panel provided by Eurostat that … on income and hourly pay can be derived. …

whether experiencing financial and health-related damage caused by storms affects risk preference of individuals in Germany …

We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany … over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this … opportunities compensated otherwise rising inequality in annual labour incomes. On the other hand, income inequality did not fall in …

poverty lines as well as techniques for fuel poverty measurement. Based on household data from Germany, figures that would …Fuel poverty may become an increasingly severe problem in developed countries in cases when real prices for fossil … fuels increase at high rates or when real energy prices increase due to policies for greenhouse gas abatement. Fuel poverty …

development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage …

to measure energy poverty is to set a 10 percent threshold of energy-related expenditure relative to net income. At the …Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a … challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment …

relative to income or an absolute or relative income poverty line fare well from a dynamic perspective. … housing. They can be interpreted as measures of deprivation in a specific domain of consumption. The large body of literature … on affordability measure has little overlap with the existing literature on poverty measurement. A comprehensive …

developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …