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Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319687
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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260639
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The Effect of Family Income During Childhood on Later-Life Attainment: Evidence from Germany
Jenkins, Stephen P.; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262621
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Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility
Jenkins, Stephen P.; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276926
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Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility
Jenkins, Stephen P.; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276943
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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany
Jenkins, Stephen P.; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260645
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The Effect of Family Income During Childhood on Later-Life Attainment : Evidence from Germany
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320384
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Income groups and types of employment in Germany since 1995
Krause, Peter; Franz, Christian; Fratzscher, Marcel - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 27, pp. 267-278
This report examines how income groups and forms of employment in Germany have changed in the past two decades. Since the mid-1990s, inequality in disposable household income in Germany has generally increased. This trend was in effect until 2005. While fewer people had disposable incomes in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011675336
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The two-thirds society : social fact of fiction?
Headey, Bruce; Krause, Peter; Habich, Roland - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000871548
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The two-thirds society : social fact of fiction?
Headey, Bruce; Krause, Peter; Habich, Roland - 1991
-thirds societies" in which two-thirds enjoy the benefits of affluence, while one-third are locked into poverty or near-poverty. This … finding is that poverty (defined as receiving less than half of average net household equivalent income) is mostly short term … and that nothing like one-third are locked into poverty On the other hand, far more people than had previously been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224899