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Does money change who you are? Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of wage increases on personality

Ayaita, Adam - 2022

Using the 2015 introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany as a quasi-experiment, I investigate the effects of wage increases on personality. The degree to which each worker's wage is intended to be affected by the reform is used as an instrument for the relative increase in the worker's...

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Does the choice of well-being measure matter empirically? An illustration with German data

Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - 2014

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...

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Dynamics of income rank volatility: Evidence from Germany and the US

Chauvel, Louis; Hartung, Anne; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2017

This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions. While most of the existing measures are affected by changes in marginal distributions, this paper proposes a framework that is based on individuals' relative positions in the...

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Income changes do not influence political participation: Evidence from comparative panel data

Jungkunz, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2021

latent-growth-curve modeling based on household panels show that participatory inequality by parental income is already large … research on (political) inequality in youth and childhood. …

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Changes in Poverty Profile in China

Shi, Li - eSocialSciences - 2008

This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data … sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and …

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Income mobility

Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2013

We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within- and between-generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.

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The effect of self-employment on income inequality

Schneck, Stefan - 2018

influence function regression of inequality measures corroborate that self-employment is a source of income inequality in the …

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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life

Clark, Andrew E. - 2012

The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...

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The evolution of income inequality in Germany and Switzerland since the turn of the millennium

Grabka, Markus M.; Kuhn, Ursina - 2012

This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using … harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has … increased substantially during this period, in Switzerland inequality in market incomes has increased only marginally and …

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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life

Clark, Andrew E. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

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