Schlenker, Eva; Schmid, Kai D. - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2014
In this paper, we estimate the effect of changes in capital income shares on inequality of gross household income …. Using EU-SILC data covering 16 EU countries from 2005 to 2011 we find that the level of capital income shares is positively … associated with the concentration of gross household income. Moreover, we show that the transmission of a shift in capital income …