We investigate the link between "underemployment at all wages" and income feedback effects due to firms' activities in an economy with imperfect competition in the product markets. The size of income feedback effects negatively depends on the number of product markets. We strengthen a previous...

Economic research on the determinants of gender differences in economic outcomes particularly in income and consumption is well established. Extending these investigations to other outcomes such as wealth up till now has been limited due to lack of individual-level data. Using the German...

We quantify the importance of precautionary labour supply defined as the difference between hours supplied in the presence of risk and hours under perfect foresight. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2001 to 2012, we estimate the effect of wage risk on labour supply and test for...