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Martin Biewen

University of Tübingen, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Professor of Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods, University of Tübingen, Germany

Research interest

Income distribution, labor economics, education economics

Website

https://www.iza.org/people/fellows/619/martin-biewen

Past positions

Professor of Statistics, University of Mainz, Germany, 2006–2009

Qualifications

Habilitation, Economics and Econometrics, University of Mannheim, Germany, 2005

Selected publications

  • “The effectiveness of public sponsored training revisited: The importance of data and methodological choices.” Journal of Labor Economics 32 (2014): 837–897 (with B. Fitzenberger, A. Osikominu, and M. Waller).

  • “Understanding rising inequality in Germany, 1999/2000–2005/06.” Review of Income and Wealth 58 (2012): 62–647 (with A. Juhasz).

  • “Measuring state dependence in individual poverty histories when there is feedback to employment status and household composition.” Journal of Applied Econometrics 24 (2009): 1095–1116.

  • “Bootstrap inference for inequality, mobility and poverty measurement.” Journal of Econometrics 108 (2002): 317–342.

  • “Measuring the effects of socio-economic variables on the income distribution: An application to the East German transition process.” Review of Economics and Statistics 83 (2001): 185–190.

article(s)

  • Poverty persistence and poverty dynamics

    Snapshots of who is poor in one period provide an incomplete picture of poverty

    Martin Biewen, November 2014
    A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most countries, only a portion of people who are currently poor are persistently poor. People who are persistently poor or who cycle into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform governments about options to reduce persistent poverty. Differences in poverty persistence across countries can shed additional light on possible sources of poverty persistence.
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