Income comparisons are among the key mechanisms used to explain satisfaction and happiness, among other outcomes. Yet …

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of … distribution of income and wealth within the household context. Based on unique individual-level wealth data from the German Socio …, the most important factor being the individual's own income and labor market experience, and particularly so at the bottom …

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their … impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and …

This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after … using post-government income, but since 2001 no longer is when using pre-government income. These results remain stable when …

income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well …-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of income in a dynamic framework. This finding holds after controlling for other … individual's own history as well as the relative income performance with respect to the others living in the society under …