Sweden and Germany, prototypical socialdemocratic and conservative welfare states, respectively, and compare them against the … the first half of the 2000s were nonetheless associated with sharply increased inequality and poverty. Overall, our … and poverty across countries raises doubts about whether policymakers and researchers rely too much on outdated …

Klappentext: Deutschland steht vor dem Scheideweg. Noch nie lebten so viele Menschen in Armut. Statt die Probleme …

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

welfare policies and individual life trajectories by way of a time-based (dynamic) analysis of poverty, combining quantitative … Germany, although the conclusions are put into a wider context of socio-economic, socio-political and historical analysis and …