This study assesses if structural theory explains the variation in poverty across rich Western democracies. With unbalanced panel analysis of 18 countries, two poverty measures and controlling for the welfare state and economic performance, I examine five structural factors: manufacturing...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. The primary purpose is to try and explain both the temporal and the spatial variation of poverty rates in terms of unemployment insurance indicators and structural/sociodemographic factors. Secondly, the paper aims to test the 'convergence hypothesis' of the...

Der demografische Wandel ist mit zeitlichen Verzögerungen in allen Industrieländern zu beobachten. Der IW-Demografieindikator beschreibt anhand von 42 Kennziffern die derzeitige demografische Struktur der OECD-Länder, ihre Potenziale, um diese Struktur mittelfristig zu verändern und ihre...