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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2002

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260639

Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2003

Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simpli?es the calculations for the i.i.d. case when compared to previous...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260665

Measuring state dependence in individual poverty status : are there feedback effects to employment decisions and household composition?

Biewen, Martin - 2004

Using a sample of prime-aged men from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper examines the effects of past poverty experience on future poverty status, future employment status and household composition. The empirical results suggest that even after controlling for observed and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260721

The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality

Biewen, Martin - 2002

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes the dynamics of equivalent income in … persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that …

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Measuring State Dependence in Individual Poverty Status : Are There Feedback Effects to Employment Decisions and Household Composition?

Biewen, Martin - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261888

Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2003

Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the calculations for the i.i.d. case when compared to previous...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262721

Who Are the Chronic Poor? Evidence on the Extent and the Composition of Chronic Poverty in Germany

Biewen, Martin - 2003

Based on a multiple spells approach, this paper studies the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany. The results indicate that about one third of cross-sectional poverty in a given year is chronic. The characteristics that are most closely associated with long-term poverty are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262758

The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality

Biewen, Martin - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262791

Understanding rising income inequality in Germany

Biewen, Martin; Juhasz, Andos - 2010

We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe's most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany … experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …. Other factors that possibly contributed to the rise in income inequality were changes in the tax system, changes in the …

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Who are the chronic poor? Evidence on the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany

Biewen, Martin - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324199