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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin - 2002

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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002 - This version: 17 July 2002

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or … across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany

Jenkins, Stephen; Schluter, Christian - 2002

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...

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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany

Jenkins, Stephen - 2002

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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany

Jenkins, Stephen - 2002

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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany

Jenkins, Stephen; Schluter, Christian - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437043

Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility

Jenkins, Stephen; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2003

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of individuals in the income pecking order. We use it to explain how it was possible both for "the poor" to have fared...

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Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility

Jenkins, Stephen - 2003

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Comparing distributions of ordinal data

Jenkins, Stephen - 2020

To compare distributions of ordinal data such as individuals' responses on Likert-type scale variables summarizing subjective well-being, we should not apply the toolbox of methods developed for cardinal variables such as income. Instead we should use an analogous toolbox which takes account of...

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A framework for the decomposition of poverty differences with an application to poverty differences between countries

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 30 (2005) 2, pp. 331-358

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