inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … objective health measures. -- Health inequality ; concentration index ; income measurement ; SOEP …We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health …

inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of … top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within …

We show how normative standpoints determine optimal taxation of wealth. Since wealth is not equal to capital, we find …

We show how normative standpoints determine optimal taxation of wealth. Since wealth is not equal to capital, we find …

in Germany using individual wealth data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2002, 2007 and 2012. Employing …Departing from the implication of the basic life cycle model that substantial wealth inequality may arise simply … because of differences in age, at first, we investigate the quantitative importance of age as a source of wealth differences …

Wealth inequality is an important matter for economic theory and policy. Ongoing debates have been discussing recent … rise in wealth inequality in connection with recent development of active financial markets around the world. Existing … literature on wealth distribution connects the origins of wealth inequality with a variety of drivers. Our approach develops a …

distributed than income, and points to a long term downward trend in wealth inequality over most of the twentieth century. We also …This chapter is concerned with the distribution of personal wealth, which usually refers to the material assets that … on wealth distribution for a number of countries. This confirms the well known fact that wealth is more unequally …

While there is now something of a consensus in the literature on the economics of happiness that income comparisons to … others help determine subjective wellbeing, debate continues over the relative importance of own and reference-group income … regarding happiness analysis, and in particular with respect to the measurement of reference-group income. We here use data from …