Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … reporting, the EU-SILC data are of great international significance for comparative EU-wide measurement, description, and … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through …

How should relative poverty be defined and measured in a European Union where there are substantial variations in … suggests that Europe-wide comparisons are more important to the perception of poverty than the convention of national relative … poverty lines would have led us to expect. Even relative poverty is more prevalent in the new low-income (eastern) countries …

We measure area-specific human poverty in the European Union (EU) at the second level of the nomenclature of … territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2). We construct a regional human poverty index (RHPI), which comprises four dimensions … regarding the relative standing of a given country with respect to its level of poverty and shows the variability of poverty …