direct questions about the linkup between aggregate disposable family income and well-being for different family types …. Conducting our survey in six countries, Germany, France, Cyprus, China, India and Botswana, we provide evidence that fixed costs … relationship to identify subsistence needs of different family types and to calculate income inequality. -- equivalence scales …

making direct questions about the linkup between aggregate disposable family income and well-being for different family types …. Conducting a pilot version of our survey in six countries, Germany, France, Cyprus, China, India and Botswana, we provide …

Recent studies in high-income industrialized countries have shown that equivalence scales are income-dependent. We …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, Spain, and Greece based on the Household Finance … of household wealth in Germany jumps up from 24 percent in the HFCS alone to 33 percent after top wealth imputation. For … and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be underrepresented in household surveys we integrate the big …

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of … entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship … function of individual wealth while the introduction of start-up costs tends to flatten this relationship. The theoretical …

This study quantifies gender-specific differences in retirement income in Germany, Denmark, and France. We show that … the sexes. Although the study does not measure causal relationships between income and health, the results indicate that … the "gender pension gap" in Germany is higher than in France and much higher than in Denmark. This ranking is similar to …

public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income …-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social … protection measures on the income distribution among and between different age groups. We use information from the late 1990s to …

public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income …-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social … protection measures on the income distribution among and between different age groups. We use information from the late 1990s to …

sources. The analysis aims at establishing how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and … income disparities across different age groups. Results are compared across nine OECD countries. …