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

Arbeitspapier

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 USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher poverty rates conditional on characteristics, which were only partly offset by a more favourable distribution of poverty-relevant characteristics, in particular higher employment rates.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 311

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
• Thema: Poverty ; Singh-Maddala Distribution ; Armut ; Einkommensverteilung ; Lebensalter ; Qualifikation ; Erwerbstätigkeit ; Geschlecht ; Vergleich ; Schätzung ; Vereinigte Staaten ; Großbritannien ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Biewen, Martin ; Jenkins, Stephen P.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
• (wo): Berlin
• (wann): 2002

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18046
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:22 MESZ