This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for the UK, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, we use the factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (Econometrica 50:193-211, 1982). The factor decomposition ...
In:
Journal of Economic Inequality
9 (2011), 1, S. 35-56
| Anna Fräßdorf, Markus M. Grabka, Johannes Schwarze
Set-point theory is the main research paradigm in the field of subjective well-being (SWB). It has been extended and refined for 30 years to take in new results. The central plank of the theory is that adult set-points do not change, except temporarily in the face of major life events. There was always some "discordant data", including evidence that some events are so tragic (e.g. the death of one's ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
97 (2010), 1, S. 7-21
| Bruce Headey
In:
Janet A. Harkness et al. (Eds.) ,
Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley
S. 355-372
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
In:
Janet A. Harkness et al. (Eds.) ,
Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley
S. 507-514
| Axel Börsch-Supan, Karsten Hank, Hendrik Jürges, Mathis Schröder