income data. Yet, what matters for incentives is how much an individual can consume or save after taxation. We show that net … and gross income growth patterns may differ substantially when a progressive tax system allows for deduction opportunities … income gains from promotions and cross-firm mobility do not translate into significantly higher net income growth, because …

We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we … take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective future job quitting. In six waves of … German Socio-Economic Panel data, the extent to which own labour income is perceived to be unfair is significantly negatively …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … that there are substantial differences between the permanent and transitory income determinants - also in terms of the … direction of the effects. Moreover, we find that income effects often differ significantly in size and sometimes sign according …