Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through …

life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …This publication concentrates on the complex interplay between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction. Main areas of …

Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income … of multidimensional polarization we extend the income dimension by time, a pre-requisite and fundamental resource of any … polarization we allow compensation between time and income, parameters of a CES-type subjective well-being function, where a …

the IMD poverty regimes. Important result: self-employed with regard to single income poverty, single time poverty and … interdependent multidimensional time and income poverty in both years are much more affected by time and income poverty than all … population are not able to compensate their time deficit even by an above poverty income. These people are neglected so far …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …

) showed that higher income individuals are less generous than poorer individuals only if they reside in a U.S. state with … major finding before readily accepting it as evidence, we analyzed the effect of the interaction between income and …

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual … positive long-term labour market effects in terms of earnings and wages, as well as positive effects on health and subjective …

determinants of intergenerational income mobility and the relative risk of poverty differ with respect to the existing welfare …Based on nationally representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics … income elasticity in the United States than in Germany and Great Britain, and country differences concerning the influence of …

The author addresses two issues. First, how can health inequalities be measured so as to take into account policymakers … information on health inequality be combined with information on the mean of the relevant distribution to obtain an overall … measure of health "achievement?" Applying the approach developed by Wagstaff shows how much worse some countries perform when …