In this thesis we describe the incidence of relative poverty among children living in Germany and analyze whether poverty has any impact on child outcomes. First, the focus lies on identifying households with a high poverty risk. Second, we analyze the dynamics of spells in and out of poverty....

Over the last two decades most European countries have been subject to a strong and persistent increase in their unemployment rates, leading these countries to attempt to combat obdurately high unemployment by exercising measures of Active Labor Market Policy (ALMP). These measures can be...