The poor and the unemployed are politically less interested and active than persons above the poverty line and the … working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany shows above-average levels of inequality of political … participation. Data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) suggest that this inequality has been increasing in the past …

People with low incomes and job seekers are less interested and active in politics than people above the at-risk-of-poverty … inequality of political participation. Data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) suggest that this inequality has followed … political participation only as a result of losing their job, nor do those affected by poverty do so due to loss of income …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

the 1990s, in particular in the first half of the decade, achieving a remarkable reduction in poverty, which contrasts … with the experience of its neighbors in the Southern Cone. Poverty reduction was mainly due to economic growth, since … inequality has remained very high. …

significant advances in poverty reduction recorded since the mid-eighties, in the last years Uruguay witnessed a deterioration of …