Income Inequality and Poverty in Eastern and Western Europe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Income Inequality and Poverty in Eastern and Western Europe: An Introduction.
• Competitive or Cooperative Welfare Policies in Europe?.
• The Main Problems of International Comparative Poverty Research.
• Working Poor: “Inequitable” Wages in Germany and in Europe! — (Higher) Minimum Wages as an Instrument of Justice?.
• Measurement of Poverty — Examplified by the German Case.
• Poverty and Social Security Transfers — Results for Seven Countries and Regions in the EC.
• Old Age Poverty in Selected Countries of the European Union — Are Women Disproportionally Affected?.
• Changes in the Rate and Types of Poverty: The Czech and Slovak Republics 1990–1993.
• Social Inequality and Poverty in Russia.
• Poverty in Hungary — Some Results of the First Two Waves of the Hungarian Household Panel Survey in 1992 and 1993.
• Income Inequality and Poverty Dynamics in Poland and East-Germany Before and Under Transition.
• Trends in the Income Distribution of Unified Germany Analyzed by Decomposable Inequality Measures.