In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced …

affected by general trends in deprivation indicators. Comparing multidimensional and income-based methods, I find only a modest … overlap of people considered as poor by both approaches. Moreover, I address the role of income as a dimension in …

public at large. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we provide rent-income ratios over more than two … decades and show how they change with households' disposable needs-adjusted income. We find a substantial increase in the … ratios over the 1990s. In the decade that followed, they remained relatively constant. Moreover we find that rent-income …

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro …. The factor decomposition of disposable income into single income components shows that capital income is exceedingly … volatile and its share in disposable income has risen in recent years. Moreover, capital income makes a disproportionately high …

middle of the life course, improved questions on income, savings, and wealth as well as psychological constructs will play a …

income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …

amtlichen deutschen Stichprobe der European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) und des …