reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two … loosing their income because of contamination. Data on six countries confirm a disproportionate impact of the epidemic on the …

microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … from the German Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS), the present paper compares EU-SILC-based results about income …

their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that … only income relative to others was related to well-being. In this paper, we review the evidence to assess the importance of … absolute and relative income in determining well-being. Our research suggests that absolute income plays a major role in …

Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in … about well-being, we find no support for this claim. The relationship between well-being and income is roughly linear …

marginal utility of income. This paper suggests that we have not. It draws a distinction between concavity of the utility …

on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country setting. Analyzing rich … individual-level data from a six-country survey, we find that while the outbreak has no impacts on household income losses, it … results in a 65-percent reduction in the expected own labor income for the second-poorest income quintile. The impacts of the …

average incomes surged from 2017 to 2018 they were still below their peak in 2014. More than 80% of all income growth between …

simulate entitlement to the unemployment insurance benefit and calculate its effect on household disposable income in case … still rests on market income from other household members. Unemployment insurance would reduce the risk of falling into … poverty in case of unemployment and would increase household income stabilization, although to a limited extent. Due to the …