while low-income respondents hardly react. We replicate this result for the United States and Germany using data from two …

life satisfaction, reference income exerts a negative effect on individual well-being, a result consistent with the … relative utility hypothesis. Performing separate analyses for some Eastern European countries, we also find some evidence of a …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the …

of utility, and lower preferred levels of income redistribution. In societies with a low level of actual social mobility …

We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income …

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for …

Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a “disruptive … 2020 in Germany, when schools and day care centers were closed but while other measures had been relaxed and new infections …

-- on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic … robust positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is … the increase in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low …