We use a panel vector autoregressions model to examine the coevolution of changes in happinessand changes in income, health, marital status as well as employment status for the BritishHousehold Panel Survey (BHPS) data set. This technique allows us to simultaneously analyzethe impact of the...

Food banks are returning to the spotlight as their use increases due to the coronavirus pandemic and the influx of Ukrainian refugees to Germany. The current discussion is focused on whether the food banks can handle the increasing number of users as well as the financial and organizational...

Mit der Corona-Pandemie, der vermehrten Zuwanderung ukrainischer Geflüchteter und den aktuell stark steigenden Lebensmittelpreisen rücken die Tafeln in das öffentliche Interesse. Debattiert wird, ob die Tafeln die steigende Zahl ihrer BesucherInnen und die mit ihr verbundenen finanziellen und...

Der russische Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine hat eine große Fluchtbewegung ausgelöst. Allein nach Deutschland sind seit Kriegsbeginn über eine Million Menschen gekommen. Auf Grundlage der zweiten Befragungswelle der Studie "Geflüchtete aus der Ukraine in Deutschland...

Die Bruttostundenlöhne von abhängig Beschäftigten sind im Zeitraum 1995 bis 2021 inflationsbereinigt durchschnittlich um 16,5 Prozent gewachsen, unter den Vollzeitbeschäftigten sogar um 25 Prozent. Insbesondere bei den niedrigsten Löhnen gibt es seit 2013 starke Zuwächse, vor allem...

There is an ambiguity in Amartya Sen's capability approach as to what constitutes an in-dividual's resources, conversion factors and valuable functionings. What we here call the\circularity problem" points to the fact that all three concepts seem to be mutually en-dogenous and interrelated. All...

Subjective well-being is a complex phenomenon coevolving with events in important do-mains of life. Panel vector autoregressions are a suitable tool to analyze the underlyingstructure of changes in happiness and its coevolution with changes in income, health, wor-ries, marital status and...

While there is little doubt that innovations drive economic growth, their effects on well-being areless clear. One reason for this are ambivalent effects of innovations on well-being that result frompecuniary and technological externalities of innovations, argued to be inevitable. Another...

This article deals with income advantages derived from owner-occupied housing and their impact on the personal income distribution. Using micro-data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) we find...