education and poorer language skills than natives and outcomes are initially poor with low employment, high welfare use and low …

are in much worse health than those at the top. This health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth …. Finally, feedbacks from new health events to household income are one of the reasons that underlie the strength of the income …

subsequently exhibit high income. I re-examine this puzzle in California, where most Asians settled historically. Asians achieved …

Income volatility and wealth volatility are central objects of investigation for the literature on income and wealth … significantly higher values than income volatility, the effect being mostly driven by changes in the market value of real estate …

In this paper, I examine the effect of business cycles on the employment, earnings, and income of persons in different … earnings, hourly earnings, annual hours, annual earnings, family earnings, family transfer income, and total family income. The … effects on family income than individual earnings. The paper examines the stability of these results by comparing evidence …

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same … whether we compare individuals or countries, suggesting that absolute income plays an important role in influencing well …

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using … of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different patterns of adaptation to income across the rich and poor. We find … evidence that for wealthy Germans, and for the rich half of European nations, higher levels of per capita income don't buy …

welfare losses from income comparisons are significant, any governmental interventions that alter such attitudes may have … comparing income with others may diminish welfare even when income levels increase makes UK respondents compare incomes more …Economists have long been aware of utility externalities such as a tendency to compare own income with others'. If …

rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … poverty gap attributable to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50 % transient … urban-rural income gap on which much of current poverty debate in China focuses. Since an uncertain income stream is worth …