Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income … of multidimensional polarization we extend the income dimension by time, a pre-requisite and fundamental resource of any …) polarization compensation between time and income, parameters of a CES-type subjective well-being function, is evaluated …

Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on … whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their … relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct information on income comparison intensity and perceived relative …

recent poverty and wealth report for our government, this is the first time that the anonymized microdata records of the … German Income Tax Statistic can be used by researchers within the Federal Statistical Office. Such a microdata file is …With the tax reform 2000 Germany has seen the implementation of the most ambitious tax reduction programme in its post …

Einkommensverteilung: Armut und Reichtum. Erstmals ist darin auf der Basis der Mikrodaten der Einkommensteuerstatistiken 1992, 1995 und … the sound foundation provided by the microdata of the Income Tax Statistics 1992, 1995, 1998 and simulated 2003. This … Einkommen mit alternativen Reichtumsgrenzen seit den 90er Jahren im Zeitverlauf geändert haben. Das Besondere unserer …

macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric … methods (on the empirical basis of the 1984-2010 German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) waves). In concrete terms, the …; afterwards, these connections are used to produce a nexus between German income inequality and the stated macroeconomic variables …

macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric … methods (on the empirical basis of the 1984-2010 German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) waves). In concrete terms, the …; afterwards, these connections are used to produce a nexus between German income inequality and the stated macroeconomic variables …

We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … income sources. To our knowledge, this is the first study that provides comparable and detailed longitudinal income …

microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living …Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increasing extent, using … Conditions (EU-SILC) as well as data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). In addition to their significance for national …