This paper documents earnings dynamics over the life-cycle and income level using a large administrative database from … normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with … German tax records. I find that labor earnings display important deviations from the typical assumptions of linearity and …

Earnings differences are a recurring topic of public discussion in Germany. Data from the long-term Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) study as well as a separate survey of German employees (LINOS) show that earnings inequalities are generally … perceived as fair while a substantial share of the respondents find the current earnings distribution in Germany unfair. This …

intensity" (RTI) and "offshorability" (OFFS) for use with the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database. To produce these data, we … 38 LIS countries and 160 LIS country-years. To assess the validity of these recodes, we compare average labor-income … OFFS scores and advance the literature on income polarization, we analyze their association with work hours and labor …

We reexamine the claim that the effect of income on subjective well-being suffers from a systematic downward bias if … one ignores that higher income is typically associated with more work effort. We analyze this claim using German panel … do not find evidence that leaving working hours out of the analysis leads to an underestimation of the income effect …

Individuelle Wohlfahrtsanalysen konzentrieren sich traditionell auf das monetäre Einkommen. Erst in jüngerer Zeit … erlangt die Zeitdimension, der zeitliche Aufwand das jeweilige Einkommen zu erzielen, an Bedeutung auch für die Analyse von … verbundene Zeitsouveränität auf die individuellen Einkommen hat. Mit der mikroökonometrischen Analyse wird dafür die Signifikanz …

Individuelle Wohlfahrtsanalysen konzentrieren sich traditionell auf das monetäre Einkommen. Erst in jüngerer Zeit … erlangt die Zeitdimension, der zeitliche Aufwand das jeweilige Einkommen zu erzielen, an Bedeutung auch für die Analyse von …