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 …

Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income … explain income dissatisfaction best among all dichotomizations of income. To this end, several model settings are considered … lines is also investigated. -- Household income ; poverty line ; income satisfaction …

life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …

the aggregate level, the main driver is equally income polarization, whereas the standard measure of inequality, the Gini …We here explore the link between individual concerns about crime and the distribution of income in Germany. We make use …

substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total … household disposable income; there is also a further case of missingness confronting household panel surveys that potentially …

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We … disposable incomes is small because low wage earners are scattered over the whole income distribution and wage increases would to …

Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and …

immediately above the lowest income quintile. In fact, members of the second income quintile show levels of disdain similar to … their wealthier counterparts on the other end of the income distribution. On the other hand, moralistic beliefs about the …

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