This paper analyzes how inequality in before and after government income has changed in Germany since reunification using the 1990 through 1992 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel. A Theil decomposable index is used to measure inequality in Germany and in its eastern and western states....

This paper, using six waves of data (1984-89) from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic Panel, compares economic well-being using single year income, multiyear income, and wealth as measures. The authors find inequality to be greater in the United States than in...

In this paper, the equivalence scale elasticity will be estimated by using individual panel data on income satisfaction from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP). Satisfaction or happiness data have been more frequently used by economists in recent years to analyze individual...