Seit Mitte der Achtziger Jahre ist die Einkommensarmut in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland insbesondere infolge der zunehmenden Arbeitslosigkeit deutlich angestiegen. Beim Versuch, diese Situation in der öffentlichen Debatte zu entdramatisieren, wird immer wieder auf Befunde aus Untersuchungen...

The objective of this research is to measure and compare the importance of the contribution of inequality of opportunity in child health inequality. The latter is decomposed into within opportunity inequality and the between opportunity inequality using a non-parametric approach after building...

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified...