Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) as well as data from the German...

Die Studie untersucht die strukturelle Entwicklung der deutschen Wirtschaft bis zur Mitte der 90er Jahre. Der Strukturwandel wird weiterhin von der Fortentwicklung der internationalen Arbeitsteilung und von Verschiebungen zugunsten der Dienstleistungen geprägt. Vermehrte Dienstleistungsinputs...

This paper explores the relationship between two well-established concepts of measuring individual well-being: the concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i.e. the gaps between the individual's income and the...