Siegert's work examines the influence of parenthood on the risk of poverty among women and men in couple households based on joint household income and individual income (i.e., with and without taking the partner's income into account). It shows that mothers in particular often depend on financial support from their partners to avoid poverty—a perspective that has been neglected in poverty reporting to date. By analyzing quantitative data in a European country comparison and at the transition to parenthood in Germany, new insights into income inequality and poverty in heterosexual couple households are gained.
The Karl Renner Institute and the SPÖ parliamentary club have awarded the Kurt Rothschild Prize for Economic Journalism for the tenth time this year to outstanding economists and social scientists. The prize winners are distinguished by their exemplary research work, in which they place economic issues in a broad context and address key social challenges.
