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 cohesiveness of constituent nations in a confederation such as the Eurozone depends on their equally shared experiences. In terms of household incomes, commonality of distribution across those constituent nations with that of the Eurozone as an entity in itself is of the essence. Generally,...

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...

We provide a partial ordering view of horizontal inequity (HI), based on the Lorenz criterion, associated with different post-tax income distributions and a (bistochastic) non-parametric estimated benchmark distribution. As a consequence, several measures consistent with the Lorenz criterion can...