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Income Inequality and Poverty in Eastern and Western Europe

✍ Scribed by Notburga Ott, Gert G. Wagner (auth.), Priv.-Doz. Dr. Notburga Ott, Professor Dr. Gert G. Wagner (eds.)

Publisher
Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Leaves
255
Series
Contributions to Economics
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

The main purpose of the book is the analysis of income inequality and poverty in a comparative context. The book contains articles on the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia under transition. Western European countries which are under consideration are: Belgium, Catalonia, France, Germany (East and West), Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lorraine, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and United Kingdom. Objective as well as subjective approaches for measurement of poverty are used. The book gives references to public use files which could be used for own research of readers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Income Inequality and Poverty in Eastern and Western Europe: An Introduction....Pages 1-10
Competitive or Cooperative Welfare Policies in Europe?....Pages 11-30
The Main Problems of International Comparative Poverty Research....Pages 31-51
Working Poor: β€œInequitable” Wages in Germany and in Europe! β€” (Higher) Minimum Wages as an Instrument of Justice?....Pages 53-67
Measurement of Poverty β€” Examplified by the German Case....Pages 69-89
Poverty and Social Security Transfers β€” Results for Seven Countries and Regions in the EC....Pages 91-123
Old Age Poverty in Selected Countries of the European Union β€” Are Women Disproportionally Affected?....Pages 125-145
Changes in the Rate and Types of Poverty: The Czech and Slovak Republics 1990–1993....Pages 147-174
Social Inequality and Poverty in Russia....Pages 175-185
Poverty in Hungary β€” Some Results of the First Two Waves of the Hungarian Household Panel Study in 1992 and 1993....Pages 187-206
Income Inequality and Poverty Dynamics in Poland and East-Germany Before and Under Transition....Pages 207-233
Trends in the Income Distribution of Unified Germany Analyzed by Decomposable Inequality Measures....Pages 235-253

✦ Subjects

Population Economics

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