different regulatory approaches may, in the end, have quite diverse implications on income inequality among the elderly. A … affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …

Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable. Based on these pseudo samples, poverty and inequality indicators are estimated. The standard errors of the …

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 …

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 …

The official measure to analyse poverty in Germany is the at-risk-of-poverty rate, defined as 60 per cent of the median … that the issue of poverty in Germany generates in the minds of both the government and the public. Especially since it … multidimensional poverty index for Germany that is based on the capability approach. It also introduces a multidimensional happiness …

This paper studies the impact of the Protestant Reformation on wealth distribution and inequality in confessionally … insiders only. This gave Protestantism an ambiguous character in terms of redistribution and its impact on inequality. I … framework, I document that the Reformation exacerbated inequality overall, by making marginal poor people relatively poorer. The …