year 2009
authors Juergen Volkert
objectives To introduce the concept of individual potentials and instrumental freedoms in the measurement of capabilities and poverty in Germany with a special focus on inequalities in gender, political participation and interdependences between financial and non financial issues of poverty.
type of data secondary data
level micro
methods Maximum Likelihood Probit
source GSOEP, ALLBUS
geographic context Germany
keywords capabilities, functionings, Individual potentials as financial means, commodities and personal conversion factors and instrumental freedom