Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994
Germans and Americans in the 1980s. In our analysis we use both official equivalence scales and consumption-based country …-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that … inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …