This paper uses three waves of Tanzanian National Panel Surveys (2008/09, 2010/11, and 2012/13) to construct a panel from 3,676 households that appear in at least two waves to explore the effect of income diversification on household welfare measured in terms of food consumption. The analysis...

This article describes the development of the needs-weighted net household income of persons in private households in Germany since the year 2000. It also focuses on the presentation of the prevalence and amount of credit debts of private households. The central result is that the share of...

This study consists of an effort to analyze the process of constitution of the paradigm of the public employment system (SPE) in Brazil, having as a reference the programmatic model proposed from the deliberations of the International Labor Organization (ILO). Therefore, it is a matter of...

Governments, multinational companies, and researchers today collect unprecedented amounts of data on human feelings. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental stress, societal trust, and other important variables. Yet...

This paper provides a comprehensive discussion on different, interconnected methods of using the system of national accounts to measure the relevance of a country's wellness sector to its overall economy. Procedures are discussed for using input-output analysis to derive the production and...

Während auf europäischer Ebene eine Stärkung von Mindestsicherungssystemen im Rahmen der Umsetzung der Europäischen Säule sozialer Rechte diskutiert wird, ist die deutsche Diskussion im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl 2021 durch unterschiedlich weitreichende Vorschläge zur Reform des...

This paper identifies the main inputs considered in the model of skill formation of Cunha and Heckman (2007) and the impact of household wealth on these inputs is estimated. For this, a socioeconomic index is constructed using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method. The results from...

This paper studies inequalities in labour market outcomes, incomes and economic concerns across workers in Germany during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis using SOEP-CoV data. It shows that, overall, the self-employed and disadvantaged groups of workers were more severely affected by the...

Does identification with dominant ethnic groups lead individuals to diverge in their preferences for redistribution? This paper contributes to the comparative analysis of the role of ethnic background in shaping attitudes towards government's role in reducing income inequalities in Indonesia,...

The purpose of this research is to examine the poverty phenomenon indicators in Poland through the prism of sustainable development. The subject of poverty and its consequences is often omitted in the discussion of sustainable development, or simplified only to social issues, yet it is an...