Mit dem 6. Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht (ARB) kommt die Bundesregierung ihrer gesetzlichen Verpflichtung nach zur Mitte einer jeden Legislaturperiode dem Deutschen Bundestag Bericht über fundamentale Kennzahlen zur Entwicklung von Armut und Reichtum in Deutschland zu erstatten. In dieser...

Income and wealth are important determinants of individual economic well-being because they are a fundamental resource for consumption. Due to increasing inequality the distribution of income and wealth has moved more and more into the focus of scientific and political attention. The aim of this...

Economic growth and a rising stock market in the 1990s gave the impression that everyone was accumulating wealth and asset poverty rates were declining. The impression was supported by the official, income-based poverty measure, which exhibited a sharp decline. According to Senior Scholar Edward...