demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyse the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to the other EU-15 countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. The latter … decreasing. The cross country analysis yields several groups of countries according to their values of poverty and richness …

is considered as the main poverty risk. But even though the share of social benefit receivers among the youths is above … average, youth poverty - unlike child poverty - has been neglected in recent research. Regarding youth, poverty is seen more … as a temporary phenomenon. Considering only the standard poverty measure is not enough to figure youth poverty, because …

We know quite a lot about cross-sectional child poverty rates. But we want to move closer to answering the dynamic … question of why children move into and out of poverty. Using a longitudinal data set developed out of the Income Supplement to … household) and responses to these triggers by families, as a means of considering child poverty dynamics in New Zealand. It …

This study examines the dynamics of poverty for four OECD countries (Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United … States). It provides information on patterns of poverty, which groups stay in poverty the longest, and household …/individual characteristics and life-course events which appear to be most closely associated with transitions into and out of poverty and the …

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the … last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and … income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a …

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the … last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and … income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a …

Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income … satisfaction to construct an evidence-based poverty line. The poverty line is identified by using its assumed unique property to …-Economic Panel yields a temporally stable poverty line similar to the definition provided by the Statistical Office of the European …

In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition … approach. This method differentiates between various social groups in the sense that for each group a separate poverty line is … traditional poverty measurement to refer to income-independent equivalence scales is principally avoided. Moreover, the further …