Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21304 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1528
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001, with a focus on developments since unification in 1991. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are used to estimate poverty rates, rates of entry to and exit from poverty, and the duration of time spent in and out of poverty. The analysis focuses upon comparisons between East and West Germany, by family structure, and citizenship status. Child poverty rates have drifted upward since 1991, and have been increasing more than the rates for the overall population since the mid-1990s. In part these changes are due to increasing poverty among children from households headed by noncitizens. Children in single parent households are by all measures at considerable risk of living in poverty. There are also substantial differences in the incidence of child poverty and its dynamics between East and West Germany.
Subjects: 
poverty dynamics
poverty duration
immigrant households
JEL: 
I38
J13
I32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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