revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality … competition. -- Poverty ; human capital ; life-cycle analysis ; lifetime income ; education ; taxation ; transfers …

We study the relationships, for the case of Germany, between inequality in the annual earnings distribution, and … subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year. The study builds on an exact decomposition framework outlined … in Wodon and Yitzhaki (2003), and in Yitzhaki and Wodon (2004). The study shows that inequality in the subannual monthly …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component …

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for … based on a revealed preference consumption approach for West Germany and the United States. We review several approaches and …

, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West … Germany 1983. It is a part of a joint US and German research project comparing equivalence scales with consistent methods and … Germany based on actual available individual consumption expendituredata shows a variety of interesting results with regard to …