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dc.contributor.authorBönke, Timmen
dc.contributor.authorSchröder, Carstenen
dc.date.accessioned2009-09-15-
dc.date.accessioned2009-09-25T13:29:05Z-
dc.date.available2009-09-25T13:29:05Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-941240-00-1en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/28095-
dc.description.abstractWe study inter-temporal changes in poverty for Germany from year 1978 to 2003, and we employ the bootstrap method to test for statistical significance of results. All results are decomposed by household type and region. Poverty estimates are particularly high for single parents. Most striking, however, is the poverty divide between the old and newly-formed German Federal States, with poverty being significantly higher in the latter. We conduct a nonlinear Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to quantify the separate contribution of regional differences in households' characteristics to the probability of being poor.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aFreie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft |cBerlinen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aDiskussionsbeiträge |x2009/6en
dc.subject.jelH53en
dc.subject.jelI38en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordPovertyen
dc.subject.keyworddecompositionen
dc.subject.keywordexpenditure patternsen
dc.subject.keywordnecessitiesen
dc.subject.keywordOaxaca-Blinder decompositionen
dc.subject.keywordbootstrapen
dc.subject.keywordequivalence scaleen
dc.titleThe German spatial poverty divide: poorly endowed or bad luck?-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn608747432en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:fubsbe:20096en

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