In the context of income dynamics, we investigate whether aspects of agents' superior information relative to the … econometrician cannot observe idiosyncratic shocks to both permanent and transitory components of income. In this case perceptions of … households. We find evidence of superior information consistent with standard income modelling. -- subjective expectation reports …

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the … importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income …

In this paper we analyze the impact of the expectations about future labor income on thesaving behavior of German … decreases savings. However, we are not able to identify asignificant relationship between general future income expectations and …

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index …, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann …

food is readily available, we use of Engel's law in reciprocal form to measure affluence. Analysis of real income data for … present the results in the form of stochastic cross-country income comparisons …

income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study …: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction … with income is more affected by ex ante than by ex post volatility of income. The ordinal version of the Van Praag approach …

Matching ; Survey of Consumer Finances ; Annual Demographic Supplement ; Distribution of Income and Wealth …

inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …

objective health measures. -- Health inequality ; concentration index ; income measurement ; SOEP … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …

This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents … evidence that income is likely to be under-recorded for households with low resources. It describes the different impressions … an imputed income from housing, rather than near-cash income. It describes what different impressions one gets about the …