reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …

This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of … poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion …, and the influence of changing levels of substitutability between achievements on the poverty dimensions is examined. It …

The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in … the population. It derives the implications of a between-type regressive transfer principle for poverty measures, for the … choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in …

This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of … poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion …, and the influence of changing levels of substitutability between achievements on the poverty dimensions is examined. It …

poverty indices using SOEP data from 1991-2012. We distinguish between parental and publicly provided childcare, which is an … increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …

This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty … multidimensional poverty indices. …

This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty … multidimensional poverty indices. …

This paper applies the Alkire and Foster (2011) index of multidimensional poverty to German data. This is done with … respect to the politically most important dimensions of poverty mentioned in the German federal government's report on poverty …