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

• Verfasst von: Biewen, Martin [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Jenkins, Stephen [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany
• Verf.angabe: Martin Biewen and Stephen P. Jenkins
• Ausgabe: This version: 17 July 2002
• Verlagsort: Berlin, Germany
• Verlag: DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research
• E-Jahr: 2002
• Jahr: October 2002
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 33 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Discussion papers / German Institute for Economic Research ; 311
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Biewen, Martin: Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. - Berlin : DIW, 2002. - 29 S.
• RVK-Notation: QB 910
• Sach-SW: Poverty
• Sach-SW: Singh-Maddala Distribution
• Form-SW: Graue Literatur
• Form-SW: Arbeitspapier
• K10plus-PPN: 849529832

Abstract

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.