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Behind the Curtain: The Within-Household Sharing of Income
Elsas, Susanne - 2011
The distribution of personal income in a society depends strongly on the within-household distribution of income. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare economic perspective. Measures of financial satisfaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601024
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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294938
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Pooling and sharing income within households: A satisfaction approach
Elsas, Susanne - 2013
poverty. However, since cohabitation without marriage is on the rise and since income pooling is less frequent among …, which implies that a wide range of analyses of income poverty, for instance, may be misleading. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322523
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327284
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Parental child care time, income, and subjective well-being: A multidimensional polarization approach for Germany
Merz, Joachim; Peters, Normen - 2019
Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is time which enables and restricts individual activities and is a further brick to a more comprehensive picture of individual well-being. In our study we focus on a prominent part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985356
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Time, income and subjective wellbeing - 20 years of interdependent multidimensional polarization in Germany
Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2021
poverty and affluence poles and regimes, for fulltime selfemployed, employees and subsequently for further socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793241
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Income comparisons, income formation, and subjective well-being: New evidence on envy versus signaling
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2013
Drawing on the distinction between envy and signaling effects in income comparison, this paper uses 307,465 observations for subjective well-being and its covariates from Germany, 1990-2009, to study whether the nature of income comparison has changed in the process of economic development, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313028
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287226
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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635679
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Behind the Curtain: The Within-Household Sharing of Income
Elsas, Susanne - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
The distribution of personal income in a society depends strongly on the within-household distribution of income. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare economic perspective. Measures of financial satisfaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149132