-economic analyses of SOEP data show that income has a clear influence on donation behavior. Although the richest ten percent of … households contribute 37 percent of total donations, they donate less than the poorer income groups relative to their disposable … income. Despite this, the tax benefit from charitable giving is greater for richer households than for poorer because it is …

income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …

immigration. This development is reflected in private household income, which has increased by 12 percent over the same period …. Since 2013, all income groups have been benefiting from this increase and in 2015, the lowest income decile began benefiting … as well. Disposable income inequality and the low-income rate are stagnating, but the trends differ depending on …

Between 1991 and 2015, the real disposable, needs-adjusted income of persons in private households in Germany rose by … 15 percent on average. The majority of the population has benefited from the growth in real income, but the groups at the … lower end of the income distribution have not. Inequality in both market and disposable needs-adjusted household income has …

In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and … effects social treadmill has on life satisfaction for humans with high income. A key result of the fixed-effect-regression is … the following: There is a significant effect relative income has on the contentment with life for affluent people, whereas …

inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …

income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …