Richard Hauser / Irene Becker (eds.)

Reporting on Income Distribution and Poverty

Perspectives from a German and a European Point of View
Mitarbeit:Hauser, R.; Becker, I.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The intention of this book is threefold: presenting and advancing German reporting on income distribution and poverty, looking at experiences with advanced reporting schemes in two other EU countries, and discussing concepts for comparable social monitoring in the European Union. The first group of papers elaborates on recent findings for Germany (trends in the personal distribution of income and income poverty, multidimensional approaches to measure poverty and extreme poverty, redistribution). Of special interest is a critical methodological review of the two main German databases for distribution analyses, taking the suggestions of the Canberra Group as a reference. The second group of contributions reviews research on income distribution and poverty in Great Britain and Ireland. The last paper discusses concepts of comparable indicators for poverty and social exclusion in the EU.

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Richard Hauser Irene Becker Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, FrankfurtlMain This volume marks the end of a research project of the editors titled "The Devel opment of the Personal Distribution of Income in Germany" that was financed by the Hans Bockler Foundation from 1994 to 2001. This research concentrated on a national perspective, studying many aspects of income inequality and poverty in West Germany between 1969 and 1998 and extending the analyses to inequality in East Germany after the German reunification. Now at the end point of our empiri cal analyses, we want to expand the perspective to other research in this field, to challenges for future research, and to the European dimension, rather than to summarise all our results, which is done in another bookl. In 2001, the German goverrunent published its first Poverty and Wealth Re 2 port , which also draws on results from our research project. Thus, the intention of this volume is threefold: presenting and advancing Gernlan reporting on poverty in other coun and wealth, examining experience with advanced reporting schemes tries, and discussing comparative concepts for social monitoring in the European Union.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-44064-2
• 2003
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2002
• Deutsch, Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9783540440642
• ISBN-10: 354044064X
• Artikelnr.: 11118112

Autorenporträt

Richard Hauser leitet seit 2001 das Münchner Büro von Booz Allen Hamilton. Mitglied in der Operations Group des Beratungsunternehmens und auf die Branchen Automobil und Aerospace spezialisiert.

Inhaltsangabe

The Development of the Distribution of Income and Wealth in Germany - an Overview.- Income Redistribution: Tax-Financed Versus Contribution-Financed Components.- A Comparison of the Main Household Income Surveys for Germany: EVS and SOEP.- Resources, Standard of Living and Lebenslagen - And What Does All This Have To Do With Poverty?.- A Conceptual Framework for Recording Extreme Poverty.- The Poverty and Wealth Report and the National Action Plan (NAPIncl): Mutual Co-ordination and Prospects.- The Case of Great Britain: Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion.- Measuring and Targeting Poverty in Ireland.- Developing Comparable Indicators for Monitoring Social Inclusion in the European Union.