Äquivalenzskalen ; Deutschland ; USA ; Einkommensverteilung ; Ungleichheit ; Armut … inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …, daß Ungleichheit und Armut in den Vereinigten Staaten gößer sind als in Deutschland. Alle Personengruppen zusammen …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

This paper explores trends in inequality and poverty using both market and after-tax and transfer income in the period … during and after the Great Recession (through 2011). Using market income (or wages), inequality and poverty rose sharply … poverty increase was muted. Tax and transfer policies lowered inequality and poverty, but those policies were not equal across …

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for … based on a revealed preference consumption approach for West Germany and the United States. We review several approaches and …

Einkommensverteilung, zur Ungleichheit und zur Armut. Das vorliegende Diskussionspapier stellt Äquivalenzskalen auf der Basis von Konsum …, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West … Germany 1983. It is a part of a joint US and German research project comparing equivalence scales with consistent methods and …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …, daß Ungleichheit und Armut in den Vereinigten Staaten gößer sind als in Deutschland. Alle Personengruppen zusammen …-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that …

across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or …