Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Uneinigkeit über grundsätzliche methodische Fragen der deutschen Armutsmessung werden im Beitrag von Jürgen Volkert wesentliche Positionen von Amartya Sens Capability-Ansatz erörtert.

This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...

We use entropy based methods on a sample of household income data from the 2005 Chinese Inter-Census as a basis for summarizing the income data in the form of a probability density function(PDF), and to obtain measures of income inequality. We estimate the income probability density functions...