secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income. We use sibling fixed effects models and … information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to … unobservable factors that themselves might be correlated across generations. Our main findings suggest that income has no positive …

This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions …

inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …

equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old … German Laender in order to determine their importance to income dynamics. To uncover the role of the welfare state in … smoothening earnings shocks we compute different income concepts reaching from gross earnings to net equivalent household income …

Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income … explain income dissatisfaction best among all dichotomizations of income. To this end, several model settings are considered … lines is also investigated. -- Household income ; poverty line ; income satisfaction …

activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. -- Comparison ; habituation ; income …

income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these … results and notions about the well-being situation of self-employed persons not only by asking about traditional single income … the substitution/compensation between genuine, personal leisure time and income. The available detailed Time Use Surveys …