-temporal changes in poverty from year 1978 to 2003. Results are decomposed by region and household types, and the bootstrap method is … have the highest poverty risk. Most striking is a huge regional divide in poverty which only narrows slightly over the … period under investigation: the incidence and the intensity of poverty are substantially higher in the New states. A …

shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …

until 2005 and has remained at the same high level ever since. At the same time, the risk of poverty in Germany increased … significantly between 2000 and 2009, and is currently at approximately 14 percent. The risk of poverty has risen significantly for … young singles (up to the age of 35) in particular. Their at-risk-of-poverty rate increased by 12 percentage points since …

We study inter-temporal changes in poverty for Germany from year 1978 to 2003, and we employ the bootstrap method to … test for statistical significance of results. All results are decomposed by household type and region. Poverty estimates … are particularly high for single parents. Most striking, however, is the poverty divide between the old and newly …