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Income Inequality and Poverty in Eastern and Western Europe

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Notburga Ott

    1. Department of Economics, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

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  2. Gert G. Wagner

    1. German Institute for Economic Research, Germany

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Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)

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Table of contents (12 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Income Inequality and Poverty in Eastern and Western Europe: An Introduction

    • Notburga Ott, Gert G. Wagner
    Pages 1-10

  3. Competitive or Cooperative Welfare Policies in Europe?

    • Georg Meran, Aloys Prinz
    Pages 11-30

  4. The Main Problems of International Comparative Poverty Research

    • Richard Hauser
    Pages 31-51

  5. Working Poor: “Inequitable” Wages in Germany and in Europe! — (Higher) Minimum Wages as an Instrument of Justice?

    • Claus Schäfer
    Pages 53-67

  6. Measurement of Poverty — Examplified by the German Case

    • Erik J. S. Plug, Peter Krause, Bernard M. S. Van Praag, Gert G. Wagner
    Pages 69-89

  7. Poverty and Social Security Transfers — Results for Seven Countries and Regions in the EC

    • Karel van den Bosch, Lieve De Lathouwer, Herman Deleeck
    Pages 91-123

  8. Old Age Poverty in Selected Countries of the European Union — Are Women Disproportionally Affected?

    • Heinz Stapf
    Pages 125-145

  9. Changes in the Rate and Types of Poverty: The Czech and Slovak Republics 1990–1993

    • Jiri Veçerník
    Pages 147-174

  10. Social Inequality and Poverty in Russia

    • Alexander Surinov, Igor Kolosnitsyn
    Pages 175-185

  11. Poverty in Hungary — Some Results of the First Two Waves of the Hungarian Household Panel Study in 1992 and 1993

    • Rudolf Andorka, Zsolt Spéder
    Pages 187-206

  12. Income Inequality and Poverty Dynamics in Poland and East-Germany Before and Under Transition

    • Joachim Frick, Irena Topinska, Gert G. Wagner, Klaus Mueller
    Pages 207-233

  13. Trends in the Income Distribution of Unified Germany Analyzed by Decomposable Inequality Measures

    • Johannes Schwarze
    Pages 235-253
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  • Department of Economics, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

    Notburga Ott

  • German Institute for Economic Research, Germany

    Gert G. Wagner

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