evolved in Germany between the early 1990s and the late 2000s. Shifts in the duration of poverty over time are captured with …Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study explores how the duration of poverty and its determinants … trends in general macro-economic conditions and social policies. Joint modeling of poverty and non-poverty spells …

We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British … Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty … persistence is greater, and poverty exit rates in particular are lower. In both countries poverty is particularly persistent among …

poverty as a whole. The paper shows that the widely used Shorrocks-Index for decomposing permanent and transitory inequality … can also be acquired to describe poverty. This method overcomes certain difficulties involved in the methods of Rodgers … & Rodgers (1993). The characteristics of the proposed Poverty-Stability-Index allow for an intuitive differentiation between the …