Description:
This paper deals with the development of the German personal income distribution in a time perspective. By varying the underlying equivalence scales I analyze whether there are worth mentioning reactions of the measured inequality and poverty due to such variations. My main finding is as follows: Although there is some variation concerning the distributional results all in all – on the overall level – the computed values are comparatively robust. Nevertheless there is at least some variation of the results, and furthermore it is probable that the results would vary to a much greater extent if there would be made a much stronger sociodemographic differentiation than in this merely illustrative paper has been done.