Es existieren unterschiedliche Definitionen von Armut und zahlreiche Maßstäbe, um das Armutsrisiko zu messen. Vor diesem Hintergrund sind auch die Ergebnisse des Armutsatlas kritisch zu hinterfragen. Dieser Beitrag zeigt defi nitorische Schwächen und Probleme bei der Berechnung der...

This paper investigates the major drivers of governmental redistribution. Extended and harmonised data on effective redistribution recently provided by the newest version of the Standardized World Income Inequality Database allows for the assessment of the origins of governmental redistribution...

Around the world many countries are about to break apart, stay together, join in federations or build supranational organisations. The political debate of the European constitution is embedded in this context. The question arises which policies have to be shifted to the central European level...