Dieser Beitrag analysiert den Einkommensreichtum von älteren Personen in Deutschland 2001. Unter Verwendung der aktuellen Daten der Lohn- und Einkommensteuerstatistik, die in besonderem Maße für die Analyse hoher Einkommen geeignet sind, werden neue Reichtumskennzahlen diskutiert und neue...

This contribution analyzes the personal income distribution with the actual microdata of the German Income Tax Statistics and focus on top incomes for important labour market groups: the self-employed (as freelancers and entrepreneurs) and employees. New are the first longitudinal results based...

The hedonic treadmill model for subjective well-being was subject to several recent empirical analyses based on individual panel data. Most of this adaptation literature is concentrated on how life events affect measures of life satisfaction and happiness, whereas adaptation processes of domain...

It is common sense that (liberal) professions and entrepreneurs (tradesmen) as self-employed are rich by money and, because of their independence and time sovereignty, are rich by time, too. This study tries to shed empirically based light on the issue and the well-being situation of the...