Prekäre Einkommenslagen in Deutschland: Ein Ost-West-Vergleich von 1996 - 2002

The paper investigates the distribution of income in West and East Germany over the period 1996 to 2002 using data from the respective microcensus. Special emphasis is put on the income distribution of those households and living communities which can be characterized as relatively poor. To single out the possible determinants of relative poorness we use Logit regressions. It turns out that the most important source of relative poorness is related to the number of children living in a household as well as the status of the family.

23. February 2006

Authors Herbert S. Buscher Juliane Parys

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