Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through …

poverty lines would have led us to expect. Even relative poverty is more prevalent in the new low-income (eastern) countries …How should relative poverty be defined and measured in a European Union where there are substantial variations in … income between countries, as well as within countries? This paper uses objective and subjective deprivation indicators to …

determinants of intergenerational income mobility and the relative risk of poverty differ with respect to the existing welfare …Based on nationally representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics … income elasticity in the United States than in Germany and Great Britain, and country differences concerning the influence of …