Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

time from the sample. The paper develops fast algorithms for jackknifing inequality indices with only a few passes through …

inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys …