This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative 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 …

a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of … top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within …

explains a large part of the discrepancy in poverty levels, with education and labor variables of household members explaining … access to high-quality education and the persistence of discrimination against colored workers in the labor market. …

German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for … distribution of income has become more concentrated at the top, the concentration at the top of the multidimensional well …-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to …

In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly … increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … change in income inequality. It appears that inequality would also have increased without this demographic trend. But its …

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly … increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … in income distribution. In order to do so, we are using a decomposition of changes in inequality measures over time …

particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the … consider the relationship between income/wealth and life satisfaction, another variable captured in TILDA. We find that income …