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Title: |
COMPARISON OF SEPARATED FAMILIES’ STANDARD OF LIVING IN GERMANY Analyzing the Equalised Incomes in Simulated Families after Child Support and Child Benefit Paid |
Authors: |
Erzsébet Teréz Varga |
Published in: |
(2022). ECMS 2022,
36th Proceedings DOI: http://doi.org/10.7148/2022 ISSN:
2522-2422 (ONLINE) ISSN:
2522-2414 (PRINT) ISSN:
2522-2430 (CD-ROM) ISBN: 978-3-937436-77-7 Communications of the ECMS , Volume 36, Issue 1, June 2022, Ålesund, Norway May 30th - June 3rd, 2022 |
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Erzsébet Teréz Varga (2022). COMPARISON OF SEPARATED FAMILIES’ STANDARD OF LIVING IN GERMANY Analyzing the Equalised Incomes in Simulated Families after Child Support and Child Benefit Paid, ECMS 2022 Proceedings Edited By: Ibrahim A. Hameed, Agus Hasan, Saleh Abdel-Afou Alaliyat, European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2022-0084 |
DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.7148/2022-0084 |
Abstract: |
In this paper, I
describe the inequality in the standard of living in Germany after divorce and
compare their risk of poverty. The one-parent families have the highest poverty
risk everywhere in the world. In Germany, a directive is available for anybody
to determine the child support geared to the non-custodial parent’s disposable
income. Assuming that the non-custodial parent pays child support following
this directive of düsseldorfer tables I found deep differences in the equalised
incomes of the divorced households in simulated cases. Equalised incomes were
determined by two types of the OECD scales to make comparable the different
composed families’ incomes. Both methods result in fewer life standards for
one-parent households in more than 83 % of the cases, however, the risk of
poverty is not higher for the custodial parent’s household. This indicates some
modification in the directive: the respect of the custodial parent’s income and/or
correction of the amounts in the tables mainly on the higher income categories.
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