Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/29929 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Ruhr Economic Papers No. 122
Publisher: 
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), Essen
Abstract: 
Using data from the German SOEP, this paper analyses whether there have been (a) any significant changes in poverty rates and poverty intensities before and after the Hartz IV reforms and (b) whether there have been observable changes in the effect of employment in reducing the threat or intensity of poverty. Using multivariate analyses we can find no evidence of increases in poverty rates comparing the time period 2002-2004 with that of 2005-2006. Further we find no change in the effect of employment in reducing the probability and intensity of poverty during this time period. The working poor phenomenon in Germany remains relatively small and statistically unchanged by the Hartz reforms.
Subjects: 
Income distribution
unemployment
poverty
JEL: 
D31
J65
J21
ISBN: 
978-3-86788-136-4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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