shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …

Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income … satisfaction to construct an evidence-based poverty line. The poverty line is identified by using its assumed unique property to …-Economic Panel yields a temporally stable poverty line similar to the definition provided by the Statistical Office of the European …

data allowus to perform parametric non-1inear estimation of Lorenz curves from grouped data.This in turn al1ows us to … estimate the entire income distribution; computing alternativeinequality indexes and poverty estimates. Finally, we have used … our broad1y comparabledataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty. …

We study the relationships, for the case of Germany, between inequality in the annual earnings distribution, and …

revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …

revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …

poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality …. The present value of human capital is determined by all future income flows, which at the same time constitute the … revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of …

lowest in the EU). So far, however, little is known about their impact on child poverty in Spain. Making use of the tax … (for regional policies) effect on the reduction of child poverty in Spain. Our results underline that, even after the … considerably larger role in reducing poverty risk even if policies in some regions perform best than others. In general, our …

We focus on the statics and dynamics of poverty in Spain using data from the first eight waves of the European … pattern of poverty changes noted by other authors for the early nineteen-nineties. After this period poverty reduces slightly …