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

The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects … on political involvement unfold over time. Using nine panel datasets from six countries, it analyzes whether income … income has an independent influence. Irrespective of indicator, specification, and method (hybrid models, inclusion of lags …

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 …

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index …, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann …

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 …

Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on … whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their … relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct information on income comparison intensity and perceived relative …

It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down floors …

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …

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 …

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