In recent years, the social policy discussion in Germany—but elsewhere as well—has been heavily dominated by the issue of income inequality and rising poverty risk rates. Yet very little research has been done on the personal wealth distribution to date, not least of all due to the severe lack of appropriate data. Using representative micro-data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the G...

Americans are truly blessed to live in such a great nation. Social benefits that we consider to be entitlements are beyond the imagination of people in certain other parts of the world. Prosperity has not always been the case here; at the time of the Jamestown Settlement in the early 1600’s, John Smith ordered "He who will not work shall not eat." In the throes of the Great Depression, America ...

BACKGROUND To examine the association between the presence of community advocacy groups (CAGs) and female sex workers' (FSWs) access to social entitlements and outcomes of police advocacy. METHODS Data were used from a cross-sectional survey conducted in 2010-2011 among 1986 FSWs and 104 NGO outreach workers from five districts of Andhra Pradesh. FSWs were recruited using a probability-based ...

Currently, the legitimate transfer of ownership of an asset occurs either through voluntary means—gift, bequest, sale—or through the use of state power—compulsory acquisition, resumption, eminent domain, court order. In Australia and elsewhere, compulsory acquisition of private property is followed by the payment of compensation, which may be too little or too great. This paper outlines an auct...