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Transitions in poverty and its deprivations: An analysis of multidimensional poverty dynamics

This paper explores a novel way to analyse poverty dynamics that is specific to certain measures of multidimensional poverty, such as the “adjusted headcount ratio” of the Alkire–Foster class of measures. Assuming there is panel data available, I show that a simultaneous and comprehensive account of transitions in deprivations and poverty allows complex interdependencies between dimensions in a dynamic ...

Walls of Glass. Measuring Deprivation in Social Participation

This paper proposes a measure for deprivation in social participation, an important but so far neglected dimension of human well-being. Operationalisation and empirical implementation of the measure are conceptually guided by the capability approach. Essentially, the paper argues that deprivation in social participation can be convincingly established by drawing on extensive non-participation in customary ...

Einbeziehung freiberuflicher Gründungen in die Gründungsstatistik des IfM Bonn - Analyse möglicher Datenquellen (IfM-Materialien Nr. 210)

Accurate Income Measurement for the Assessment of Public Policies - Final Report

Accounting for the Distributional Effects of Noncash Public Benefits

This chapter extends previous analyses of the distributional effects of welfare programs in rich countries, focusing on three of the most important public transfers in kind, namely, public education services, public health care services, and public housing. It analyzes their short-term distributional effects in a strictly comparable framework in five EU countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, and ...

EUROMOD: an integrated European Benefit-tax Model (Final Report)

Micro-level analysis of the European Social Agenda: combating poverty and social exclusion through changes in social and fiscal policy (final report)

Job search on the internet and its outcome

Purpose – This paper aims to estimate the impact of job search on the internet on the probability of re‐employment and the duration of unemployment spells.Design/methodology/approach – The study uses national panel datasets from Germany (SOEP 2003‐2007) and South Korea (KLIPS 1996‐2006) to estimate probit and Hausman‐Taylor IV models of the impact of job search on the internet on the probability of ...

International Mobil. Motive, Rahmenbedingungen und Folgen der Aus- und Rückwanderung deutscher Staatsbürger

The prevalence of medical services use. How comparable are the results of large-scale population surveys in Germany?

The large-scale representative population surveys conducted by Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI) contain questions pertaining to health and its determinants as well as the prevalence and frequency of outpatient services utilization. The same holds for the Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP, Sozio-ökonomisches Panel) and the Bertelsmann Healthcare Monitor (Gesundheitsmonitor) surveys. The purpose of this ...