The study focuses on the usage of income in Germany as well as in Lower Saxony. Concretely, the material situation of … database the scientific use file of the Income and Expenditure Survey (Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe, EVS) 2003 is used …. In detail, calculations especially concerning the item “living” are made. Furthermore, income and price elasticities are …

Responses to minimum income and minimum spending questions are used to produce economic well-being thresholds …. Thresholds are estimated using a regression framework.  Regression coefficients are based on U.S. Survey of Income and Program … compared to the estimated thresholds.  The first resource measure is total before-tax money income, and the other two are …

income. The model is estimated using a large German panel data set. …

A series of studies have suggested that changes in others' income may be perceived differently in post-transition and …' income divide the German nation. We find that the neighbourhood income effect for West Germany is negative (which is in line … with the "relative income" hypothesis) and slightly more marked in neighbourhoods that may be assumed to be places where …

. Next, we explain domain satisfactions and Subjective Well-Being by objectively measurable variables such as income. We …

This paper draws on the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) to investigate whether changes in others? income are … perceived differently in post-transition and capitalist societies. We find that the neighbourhood income effect for West Germany … coefficients on neighbourhood income in East Germany are positive, but not statistically significant. This suggests not only that …

Previous literature has identified income, poor health and social relationships as the most important predictors of … income and social relationships vary with age in a wave-like fashion, while the negative marginal effect of poor health … and living in misery) and for men and women. The agerelated changes in the importance of income and social relationships …

visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on … that of deprivation in income. The effect is robust under various sensitivity checks and for a number of controls. The … relative economic situation and proposes that future research should not solely rely on income-based deprivation measures. …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …

visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on … that of deprivation in income. The effect is robust under various sensitivity checks and for a number of controls. The … relative economic situation and proposes that future research should not solely rely on income-based deprivation measures. …