Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS … harmonization of (income) data production as well as of imputation strategies across surveys. All three panels make use of … for variability and complexity of labor income composition appear to be relevant. Secondly, longitudinal analyses yield a …

panel income changes. How do these two approaches relate to one another? This paper shows, first, that it is possible to … have all four combinations – rising or falling inequality and divergent or convergent panel income changes, and second … of answering this question is to compare two or more comparable cross sections and gauge changing income inequality among …

We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more …

We investigate the relationship between social interaction and household finances using data from the British Household … Panel Survey. We contribute to the existing literature by exploring the relationship between a wide range of aspects of … household finances and social interaction, rather than focusing one particular facet of household finances, such as the holding …

-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting couples men's net worth, on average, is 33,000 euros higher than women's. We … look at five different sets of factors (demographics, income, labor market, inheritances, financial decision-making in the … partnerships, with inheritances and income being particularly relevant. Furthermore, we find that specific characteristics (e …

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal … Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … decreased during the 2000-2005 economic recovery. The decrease appears to be driven by falling volatility of transitory income …

The article reports an analysis of the findings of a search for household budget surveys for Latin America for the … available online at University of Sussex, The Global Income Inequality Project. In Appendix 1 we offer a synopsis of the history …

increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies …In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these …

Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, we examine the income mobility among rural (urban) Indian …

-benefit systems in most OECD countries reduce income disparities very significantly, the Brazilian government has been much less … the government budget on the income distribution in Brazil, and evaluates its efficiency and effectiveness in reducing …