Irene Becker (economist)

Irene Becker (born February 4, 1953 ) is a German economist and non-fiction author .

Life

She completed her studies at the Technical University of Berlin with a degree in economics . Then worked until 1999 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main as a research assistant to Professor Richard Hauser at the Institute for Economics. There she received her doctorate (Dr. oec.) With a dissertation on income redistribution in Germany.

Since 2000 she has been a freelance scientist in various research projects and reports in empirical analyzes. Her work focuses on income and wealth distribution (especially poverty and wealth) as well as social security, analyzes of political reform models (e.g. for family burden balancing) and studies on the measurement of the socio-cultural subsistence level.

Several research projects and studies have been funded by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES).

Selection of publications

• with Richard Hauser: Is our income distribution getting more and more unequal? In: Diether Döring (Ed.): Welfare state in globalization . Edition Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-518-12096-5 , pp. 89-116.
• with Richard Hauser: Income distribution in cross-section and over the course of 1973–1998. Self-published by the Federal Ministry for Labor and Social Order, Bonn 2001 (research report published by the Federal Ministry for Labor and Social Order).
• with Richard Hauser: Anatomy of Income Distribution. Results of the income and expenditure samples 1969–1998 . Edition Sigma, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-89404-981-2 .
• with Richard Hauser: Social justice - a position assessment. Target dimensions and empirical findings . Edition Sigma, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-89404-986-7 .
• with Richard Hauser: Unreported number of poverty. Extent and causes of non-utilization of due social assistance benefits . Edition Sigma, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-89404-995-9 .
• with Richard Hauser: Distribution of Income 1999–2003. Edited by the Federal Ministry for Health and Social Security. Self-published, Bonn 2005, ISSN  1614-3639 (research project in the context of the poverty and wealth reporting of the federal government with the title “Living conditions in Germany”).
• with Richard Hauser: Non-utilization of due social assistance benefits (dark figure study). Research project within the framework of the poverty and wealth reporting of the federal government with the main title "Living conditions in Germany". Edited by the Federal Ministry for Health and Social Security. Self-published, Bonn, ISSN  1614-3639 .
• with Richard Hauser: Distribution effects of the Hartz IV reform. Results of simulation analyzes . Edition Sigma, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-8360-8669-1 .
• with Richard Hauser: Social justice - a magical square. Target dimensions, policy analyzes and empirical findings . Edition Sigma, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-8360-8704-9 .
• with Manfred Cirkel: needs-based instead of flat rate - a concept for reforming child benefit. Notes on the administration of income-related child benefit . Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86498-033-6 .

As editor

• with Richard Hauser: Distribution of Income and Poverty. Germany on the way to becoming a four-fifths society? (= Economics , Volume 36). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 978-3-593-35884-0 .
• with Richard Hauser: The Personal Distribution of Income in an International Perspective . Springer Science + Business Media , Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-642-63195-5 . doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-57232-6
• with Notburga Ott, Gabriele Rolf: Social security in a dynamic society. Festschrift for Richard Hauser on his 65th birthday . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 978-3-593-36925-9 .
• with Richard Hauser: Reporting on Income Distribution and Poverty. Perspectives from a German and a European Point of View . Springer Science + Business Media, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-642-07894-1 . doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-05254-9

Web links

• Short biography and reviews of works by Irene Becker at perlentaucher.de
• Literature by and about Irene Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Irene Becker  in the German Digital Library
• Becker, Irene at Index theologicus
• Dr. Irene Becker on DGB portal
• Dr. Irene Becker on soeb.de
• Publications by Irene Becker