Using a standardized dataset, this paper compares the differences in income mobility among four countries-Canada, the United States, Great Britain and Germany-during the 1990s and early 2000s. The results suggest that, in general, there exist diverse levels of income mobility across the four...

This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2004, with a focus on developments since unification in 1991. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are used to estimate poverty rates, rates of entry to and exit from poverty,...

Four alternative measures of the average duration of unemployment are examined with the intention of illustrating the biases inherent in the average incomplete duration of unemployment, a statistic that is often the only one reported by many statistical agencies; and the robustness of the...