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

This article concerns the need to define poverty in a way to be relevant to the context it is to refer, to be … socioeconomic situations and analyses the two approaches to poverty - basic needs and income (or poverty line) - in what concerns … their advantages and shortcomings. It highlights how perverse the generalization of the use of the poverty line approach can …

Current HICP measurement practices produce an upward bias of about one-ninth of a percentage point in German inflation … the euro area HICP. The measurement of the German HICP is impaired by the extrapolation of expenditure weights, and the …