The authors use data from the Luxembourg Income Study to show the sensitivity of measures of relative economic well-being of persons in the United States and Germany using official equivalence scales and consumption-based country-specific equivalence scales developed for the two countries....

Individual well-being has its resources by income and time. Though income traditionally is on the focuses of well-being analyses, the connected time dimension is often neglected. One important dimension of individual welfare regarding time and income is the possibility to harmonize desired with...

This microanalysis of the shadow economy is on informal family income achieving strategies. In particular, the authors analyze both sexes' paid illicit work as well as unpaid work in household production based on the representative West German Sfb 3-Secondary Occupation Survey 1984. They...

type="main" <p>This study contributes to the multidimensional poverty discussion in two ways. First, we argue for and consider time—in particular genuine personal leisure time—as an important and prominent resource, additional to income, for everyday activities and individual well-being....</p>