detailed analysis of German top incomes is conducted, beginning with a review of selected income distribution measures which … indicate that high incomes have played a significant role for income divergence in recent years. Based on new data it is shown … that top income shares have indeed increased substantially in the recent past, a process which is mainly due to a relative …

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 …

among children such that it cushions cash income inequality. One major reason for this effect is that public in-kind … economic resources by applying an extended income approach. Combining survey data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with … administrative data from the German Federal Statistical Office, extended disposable income inequality is found to be significantly …

In a simple 2-period model of relative income under uncertainty, higher comparison income for the younger cohort can … signal higher or lower expected lifetime relative income, and hence either increase or decrease well-being. With data from … comparison income on life satisfaction with all age groups, and many controls. However when we split the West German sample by …

Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests … variations in the underlying income type substantially affect tests of the relationship between life satisfaction, income rank …, reference income, and income adaptation. Models simultaneously controlling for income and income rank as well as models with a …

microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … from the German Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS), the present paper compares EU-SILC-based results about income …

interrelation between income poverty and health care is analysed. The undertaken analyses show that the interrelation did increase …

In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and … effects social treadmill has on life satisfaction for humans with high income. A key result of the fixed-effect-regression is … the following: There is a significant effect relative income has on the contentment with life for affluent people, whereas …