The importance of children and their wellbeing for the future of all societies everywhere meets with approval. The investigation of material deprivation of children in politics, the media and society is of enormous importance. However, due to different calculation methods child poverty figures are often far from being comparable. A detailed look at the origin and calculation of these figures is absolutely ...
In general, poverty measures are estimated by applying income information. However, only using income data for calculating relative poverty might lead to an incomplete view. For example, a household can be under a poverty threshold even if a household member owns real estate or equity. In this thesis, at risk of income poverty in Germany is estimated. In order to get a more complete picture of at risk ...