We argue that the institutional composition of funding consumption in the two dependent sections of the lifecycle, childhood and old age, are different. To put it sharply, children are raised by their parents, the elderly rely on society. Since the reallocation of resources within households are...

Die Kritik am Verfahren zur Bemessung der Grundsicherungs- bzw. Sozialhilfeleistungen reißt auch nach der Reform von 2011 nicht ab. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird zunächst der Frage nachgegangen, ob der methodische Ansatz (Statistikmodell) und die vom Gesetzgeber gewählten Referenzgruppen unter...

Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further...