Bislang beschränkt sich die Messung von Armut und Ungleichheit in der deutschen Armutsberichterstattung im Wesentlichen … Armutslückenverhältnis wird auf Ebene der Analyseregionen durch das aktuelle Vorgehen in der Regel überschätzt. Die Ungleichheit in der … Armutsberichterstattung zu erwarten ist. Deutliche Unterschiede zwischen den Landesteilen bleiben bestehen, allerdings wirkt die Ungleichheit …

Wohlfahrt, Ungleichheit und Armut. Dies gilt vor allem für länderspezifische Analysen und/oder für länderübergreifende …, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …

Einkommensverteilung, zur Ungleichheit und zur Armut. Das vorliegende Diskussionspapier stellt Äquivalenzskalen auf der Basis von Konsum …, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …

, daß Ungleichheit und Armut in den Vereinigten Staaten gößer sind als in Deutschland. Alle Personengruppen zusammen … inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

How can poverty reduction be improved and at what cost? Available evidence suggests that social investment strategies … and employment policies are important but not sufficient. In order to reduce the number of people below the relative at-risk-of-poverty … paper we show that this is not a cheap option. We calculate the hypothetical cost of closing the poverty gap while …

is in paid work. Working households comprised 37% of those below the official poverty line in 1994-95 and 58% in 2017 …-18. Much of that increase is due to trends that seem straightforwardly positive: lower poverty rates among pensioners and … rate of poverty in house holds where someone works. We examine the reason for the increased in-work relative poverty rate …

, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in … support also reduces poverty intensity and incidence, although not to a large extent. …

of the increase in the value-added tax (VAT) rate and increases in benefit amounts in 2018. Although poverty and … an expanded set of social benefits would lead to reduced poverty and inequality in comparison to the current practice of …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … relationship between the concentration of cash transfers net of direct taxes and their effectiveness in terms of reducing poverty …

The poverty reduction potential of national social assistance programs in eight Central and Eastern European countries … higher effectiveness in reducing poverty. Unlike Western Europe, no trade-off between extensiveness and benefit generosity or …