Always poor or never poor and nothing in between? Duration of child poverty in germany

German Economic Review

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 150-168

  Fertig, Michael ^a   Tamm, Marcus ^a  

^a RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Child poverty; Duration analysis; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

CHILD WELFARE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; HETEROGENEITY; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; LABOR MARKET; NUMERICAL MODEL; POVERTY;

GERMANY;

EID: 77953079038     PISSN: 14656485     EISSN: 14680475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2009.00470.x     Document Type: Article

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