Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

whether household income diversification is a means of survival or a means of accumulation, which has so far remained … inconclusive. This paper attempts to evaluate which explanation of household income diversification – diversification as survival … or diversification as accumulation – stands up to empirical scrutiny. We use household panel data from Tanzania of …

The collective household model requires that household decisions result in Pareto efficient outcomes. While this …. The results support the use of the collective model as a framework to study the inner workings of the household …

Income inequality and poverty risks receive a lot of attention in public debates and current research. However, the … paper to assess how the ?nancial situation of families living in Germany has developed since the early 1990s. Among other … things, our results indicate that poverty risks for households with children - especially for single parents - are …