We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the … and in the construction of income poverty lines that uniformly reflect the costs of the basic requirements of human beings …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … presented in Stevenson and Wolfers (2008, BROOKINGS PAP ECO AC), we now count three exceptions supporting Easterlin s happiness-income …

In a simple 2-period model of relative income under uncertainty, higher comparison income for the younger cohort can … signal higher or lower expected lifetime relative income, and hence either increase or decrease well-being. With data from … comparison income on life satisfaction with all age groups, and many controls. However when we split the West German sample by …

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …/09, the less educated showed no rise in LS, while highly educated LS rose after the crash despite declining real income. In …

income losses. The main objective of this study is to examine the impact of various coping strategies, due to the lockdown …

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 …

We argue that independent entitlement to income is important. This implies that earnings replacement benefits paid to …. The argument also highlights the need to consider gender differences in the receipt of income. We explore the implications … in non-means-tested benefits and the increase in means testing - taken to their ultimate conclusion. -- Income ; Benefits …

This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents … evidence that income is likely to be under-recorded for households with low resources. It describes the different impressions … an imputed income from housing, rather than near-cash income. It describes what different impressions one gets about the …

This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents … evidence that income is likely to be under-recorded for households with low resources. It describes the different impressions … an imputed income from housing, rather than near-cash income. It describes what different impressions one gets about the …

The intergenerational income elasticity is a crucial measure of income mobility. In this paper we develop a structural … model to examine the channels through which this elasticity operates. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we … human capital, independent of financial investments while the financial component examines the impact of income that is …