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 …

We estimate household equivalence scales using income satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We extend … reference effects in the determination of income satisfaction. We show that this adjustment helps to overcome a bias causing an …

of utility, and lower preferred levels of income redistribution. In societies with a low level of actual social mobility … satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; inequality ; income distribution ; redistribution ; political ideology ; justice ; fairness …

important case of independence, it is shown that the self-employed derive more utility from their work than people employed by … an organization, irrespective of income gained or hours worked. This is evidence for procedural utility: people do not …

survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation …

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation …

satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion … interacts negatively with this effect in life satisfaction. Analysing time-use data and well-being indicators for various areas … of life, we find evidence that involuntary job mobility turns out to be harmful for satisfaction with family life. By …

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