The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their … impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and …

household disposable income; there is also a further case of missingness confronting household panel surveys that potentially … income of all household members lacks at least one individual's income. These processes are typically not random and require … different strategies to deal with this phenomenon: (a) Ignorance, i.e., assuming the missing individual's income to be zero. (b …

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of … distribution of income and wealth within the household context. Based on unique individual-level wealth data from the German Socio …, the most important factor being the individual's own income and labor market experience, and particularly so at the bottom …

income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well …-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of income in a dynamic framework. This finding holds after controlling for other … individual's own history as well as the relative income performance with respect to the others living in the society under …

health, employment, income, and the family situation and this relationship is apparently not disturbed by global events. Thus …

concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i ….e. the gaps between the individual's income and the incomes of all individuals richer/poorer than him. Operationalizing both …-being dependingmore on relative satisfaction than on absolute levels of income. This finding holds even after controlling for other …