higher among foreign-born workers, reflecting weaker labor market attachment and high risk of large negative shocks for low-income … generosity and usage of benefit programs declined over time, we find stronger earnings growth among low-income workers …

This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on … representative survey, we find the rich are less empathetic. In our baseline model, people at the bottom of the income distribution … report 10% more items as essential than do people at the top of the income distribution. The negative relationship between …

We estimate household equivalence scales using income satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We extend … previous studies applying this approach by taking reference income into account. This allows separating needs-based from … reference effects in the determination of income satisfaction. We show that this adjustment helps to overcome a bias causing an …

the three components mean child income, demographic circumstances and the distribution of child income. Child poverty is … of child income as well as in the demographic composition. -- child poverty ; economic growth ; Bangladesh ; China …

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index …, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann …

It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down floors …

well-being associated with a marginal increase in income is larger for poorer than for richer populations. This hypothesis … that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher-income … group (majority population). Further, the correlation between income and emotional well-being does not differ between the …