public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income …-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social … protection measures on the income distribution among and between different age groups. We use information from the late 1990s to …

We estimate the effect of additional pension income on mortality outcomes by exploring the eli- gibility criteria of a … to a 2-month delay in age at death (censored at 75). Survey evidence suggests that additional pension income improves …

been made in the US labour market, using a dynamic panel probit model. The estimated income effect of higher housing wealth … substitution effect of earned income is negative, thus decreasing the retirement probability. The retirement decision is strongly … reinforced by wealth and earned income. …

This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation … and reference income (defined as the income of one's professional peers), and hinges on the micro-econometric analysis of … United States. Whereas "jealousy" is dominant in the former, "ambition" is even stronger in the latter. -- income …

We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze …

-described by four domains: job or daily activities, social contacts and family, health, and income. Among the four domains, social …. Income has the lowest impact. As in other work, we find that American response styles differ from the Dutch in that Americans … inclined to stay in the middle of the scale. Although for both Americans and the Dutch, income is the least important …