Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36840 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4922
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion. The empirical application relies on indices introduced by Bourguigon and Chakravarty (2003), and Alkire and Foster (2008). It uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study. The indices are tested for their robustness in several aspects, and the influence of changing levels of substitutability between achievements on the poverty dimensions is examined. It transpires that the depth of poverty is relatively stable for the period 1985 to 2007. A structural analysis of the poor in 2007 reveals that the group at greatest risk of poverty is the unemployed.
Subjects: 
Multidimensional measurement
poverty
deprivation
inequality
JEL: 
I00
I32
O15
D63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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