shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …, starting from year 1991. -- Inequality ; poverty ; mobility ; reference period of income ; monthly, quarterly, and annual …

revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …

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 …

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 …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …