inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

The distribution of income and wealth in Germany is assessed quite differently. Depending on the indicators, the sample … more unequally among younger income earners than among older ones. The importance of wealth should not be underestimated in … incomes in Germany are distributed much more unequally than net incomes. The tax and transfer system provides for an alignment …

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 …

This contribution analyzes the personal income distribution with the actual microdata of the German Income Tax …-Panel, a panel, which for the first time in Germany follows the individual taxpay-ers’ situations. With these paneldata we are … able to show first impressions about the income mobility of high incomes in particular and to give hints about the research …

In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly … increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … change in income inequality. It appears that inequality would also have increased without this demographic trend. But its …

In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly … increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … change in income inequality. It appears that inequality would also have increased without this demographic trend. But its …

In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly … increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … change in income inequality. It appears that inequality would also have increased without this demographic trend. But its …

In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly … increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … change in income inequality. It appears that inequality would also have increased without this demographic trend. But its …