Providing a decent living standard and preventing old-age poverty are the two major challenges of pension insurance … schemes. Replacement rates below the poverty line despite many years of contribution represent a major challenge for public … perspective and considers household retirement incomes in the light of analysing old-age poverty and designing (minimum) pension …

effect of poverty on crime in 19th century Germany. In addition, our data set allows us to make several original … contributions to the literature. We confirm the robust positive effect of poverty on property crime. Employing the rye price as a … proxy for poverty, we show that the effect is less pronounced for provinces with a large agricultural sector. As Mehlum et …

In Europe, there are significant differences in the extent and in the structure of in-work poverty. Based on a … sufficient to avoid poverty. Further steps regard the role of the household context (needs and further income) and the effect of … and other influences on the risk of in-work poverty …

Using data from the German SOEP, this paper analyses whether there have been (a) any significant changes in poverty … rates and poverty intensities before and after the Hartz IV reforms and (b) whether there have been observable changes in … the effect of employment in reducing the threat or intensity of poverty. Using multivariate analyses we can find no …

Income as the traditional one dimensional measure in well-being and poverty analyses is extended in recent studies by a … multidimensional poverty concept. Though this is certainly a progress, however, two important aspects are missing: time as an important … dimension and the interdependence of the often only separately counted multiple poverty dimensions. Our paper will contribute to …

poverty dynamics. In this paper, the results of longitudinal data- analyses on income and poverty in three European welfare … poverty measures have been applied to reveal these dynamics. The focus will be on so-called poverty profiles indicating … models are estimated that aim to explain the likelihood of belonging to each of the poverty profiles over time and on the …

This paper focuses on poverty and inequality in the world today. First, it points out how this topic is a main concern … weak duty of assistance, and his consideration of endemic poverty as essentially homegrown. In opposition, I focus on … which allow and cause poverty. I endorse the general normative proposal that defends every human being as an ultimate unit …

This paper analyses the association between health outcomes of newborn children and mother's poverty status during … findings indicate that there is generally no effect from poverty to health, except on the probability of preterm birth …