income, an increase in reference consumption of 100 euros leads to an increase in consumption of 10 to 25 euros. Upper middle …

Based on the Italian Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) and the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we show …

income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study …: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction … with income is more affected by ex ante than by ex post volatility of income. The ordinal version of the Van Praag approach …

-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … associated income drop. Strokes of fate have no direct effect but if they come along with changes in household composition, the … associated income shock increases the financial fragility of the household. Furthermore, a main determinant of relative …

The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of … private wealth balance sheets. Entrepreneurs, who face high income risk, hold more wealth than employees, but it is shown that …