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shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …, starting from year 1991. -- Inequality ; poverty ; mobility ; reference period of income ; monthly, quarterly, and annual … distributions ; earnings ; Germany …
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shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …
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The Income Reference Period (IRP), the measurement period of income, differs across micro-economic databases of household or individual incomes; typically it is a year, a quarter (of a year) or a month. The length of the IRP affects the shape of the income distribution and derived distributional...
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persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component …
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In this paper we examine the concept of quot;vulnerabilityquot; (Townsend 1994) within thecontext of income mobility of … revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …
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We study the relationships, for the case of Germany, between inequality in the annual earnings distribution, and … subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year. The study builds on an exact decomposition framework outlined … earnings distributions is significantly higher than in the annual earnings distribution. Further, it shows that the mobility …
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persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436290
In this paper we examine the concept of "vulnerability" (Townsend 1994) within thecontext of income mobility of the … revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005871008
revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality … competition. -- Poverty ; human capital ; life-cycle analysis ; lifetime income ; education ; taxation ; transfers …
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