affected by general trends in deprivation indicators. Comparing multidimensional and income-based methods, I find only a modest …

's mean welfare level, does not exist, on principle, in the decomposition approach. Present author's own calculations reveal …'s and overall welfare levels, at a plausible degree of economies of scale (i. e., Buhmann et al.'s · > 0.65) the poverty …

housing. They can be interpreted as measures of deprivation in a specific domain of consumption. The large body of literature …

which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real … freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them. In this paper we examine the impact of capabilities alongside … the paper is to elaborate and test a "stock-flow" model measuring capabilities and choices to explain longer-term changes …

German Laender in order to determine their importance to income dynamics. To uncover the role of the welfare state in … higher permanent inequality and higher volatility. However, taking the welfare state and its institutions into account, we …

. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare … satisfaction within couples are generally small. However, satisfaction is not a direct measure of welfare. Forthis reason …