among children such that it cushions cash income inequality. One major reason for this effect is that public in-kind … economic resources by applying an extended income approach. Combining survey data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with … administrative data from the German Federal Statistical Office, extended disposable income inequality is found to be significantly …

, resulting in lower income, higher exposure to unemployment, and lower self-employment. …

equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old … German Laender in order to determine their importance to income dynamics. To uncover the role of the welfare state in … smoothening earnings shocks we compute different income concepts reaching from gross earnings to net equivalent household income …