demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …

demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using … comprehensive analysis of richness. -- Richness ; affluence ; poverty ; tax reform ; flat tax …

measures of poverty and of affluence, focussing on incomes outside a middle class interval. The approach is applied to German …

This paper studies the impact of the Protestant Reformation on wealth distribution and inequality in confessionally … divided Germany, between 1400 and 1800. The Reformation expanded social welfare, but provided it in a particularistic way to …

poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …

in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall …

increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded … if the greater variety in living arrangements contributes to increased resource disparities among children in Germany … poverty indices using SOEP data from 1991-2012. We distinguish between parental and publicly provided childcare, which is an …

Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there … differing assessments of poverty and inequality under quite general conditions. German microdata will be used to demonstrate and …

Income inequality and poverty risks receive a lot of attention in public debates and current research. However, the … paper to assess how the ?nancial situation of families living in Germany has developed since the early 1990s. Among other … things, our results indicate that poverty risks for households with children - especially for single parents - are …