one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …

one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …

This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of … reveals that the group at greatest risk of poverty is the unemployed. -- Multidimensional measurement ; poverty ; deprivation … poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion …

Income inequality and poverty risks receive a lot of attention in public debates and current research. However, the … things, our results indicate that poverty risks for households with children - especially for single parents - are … for applied research in income inequality, especially if one is concerned with the composition, not just the size of the …

This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

This paper proposes a concept of inequality comparisons with ordinal multidimensional categorical data. In our model … indicators), we derive an operational procedure for checking ordinal inequality relations in practice. As an illustration, we … apply the model to childhood poverty in Mozambique. …

Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global … development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey … tangible information about poverty. But both ignore the depth of poverty, so they arguably present distorted views of the …

increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …: material standard of living, parental education, and parental childcare time. We compute multidimensional inequality and … poverty indices using SOEP data from 1991-2012. We distinguish between parental and publicly provided childcare, which is an …

measures of poverty and of affluence, focussing on incomes outside a middle class interval. The approach is applied to German …

found. Finally, I argue that poverty estimation based on national account consumption means and estimates of inequality from …This paper investigates how two effects drive wedges between nominal and real inequality estimates. The effects are … of consumption items; and (ii) quantity discounting effects for the non-poor. Household-specific deflators are estimated …