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 …

We review research on the dynamics and distribution of individual earnings and family income. We start with univariate … earnings models, which dominate the literature and are often used as the exogenous component of family income in structural … family income that integrate individual earnings, marriage (accounting for marital sorting), and earnings of a spouse (if …

Top income inequality in the United States has increased considerably within occupations. This phenomenon has led to a … search for a common explanation. We instead develop a theory where increases in income inequality originating within a few … provides non-divisible services to consumers, with physicians our prime example. Examining local income inequality across U …

conditional income distributions in Germany following the reunification. Using a bootstrapped Kolmogorov-Smirnov test we find that … conditional personal income distributions can generally be modelled using the three parameter Dagum distribution. Additionally our …

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

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over … estimates. However, no clear-cut disadvantage in income of underweight men can be found. Stable coefficients result for the …

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