generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory. …

bias. We study this by using a data set that combines survey information of individual workers with administrative records … survey respondents and non-respondents. We develop a method to distinguish empirically between two explanations for a bias in … both explanations. We discuss implications for standard methods to deal with non-response bias. …

We propose a first order bias correction term for the Gini index to reduce the bias due to grouping. The first order … reveals an intuitive formula for the remaining second order bias which is useful in empirical analyses. We analyze the … empirical performance of our first order correction term using income data for 15 European countries and the US, and show that …

the age of 50 by parental income for men. However, the longevity gains of men from low-income families seem to have come … at the cost of increased mortality among men who grew up in high-income families. This raises questions about the welfare …

fallswith income and wealth. Entrepreneurs are less risk averse thanemployees, civil servants are more risk averse thanprivate …

analysis suggests that a discrepancy between the income that is reported inour database and the income on which the decision to … model is explicitly based on the assumption that the decision-making processes arebased on an income level that may be … different from that reported in the data. Forhouseholds that receive the housing benefit we can compute this alternative income …