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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 …
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persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that …
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This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
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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 …
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associated derived demands for labor. Individual and community factors may influence the average length of poverty spells. We … poverty rate of the county. We find that moving an individual from one standard deviation above the mean poverty rate to one … standard deviation below the mean poverty rate (from the inner city to the suburbs) lowers the average poverty spell by 20 …
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in the U.S. has a major impact on poverty rates, reducing the percent poor in 2004 from 29 percent to 13.5 percent …, estimates which are robust to different measures of the poverty line. We find that, while there are significant behavioral side … effects of many programs, their aggregate impact is very small and does not affect the magnitude of the aggregate poverty …
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shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …
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, 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 …
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, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …
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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 …
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