Earlier research on poverty failed to provide us with consistent measures of its prevalence across space and time. This … is due to the limitations of the available sources and to the difficulty of applying to them the poverty definitions of … modern social science. This article discusses different possible approaches to poverty measurement and the problems …

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 …