Behringer, Jan; Theobald, Thomas; Treeck, Till van - 2014
return data in an attempt at better measuring top incomes and wealth. In the case of Germany, however, this approach faces a …, Germany abandoned the wealth tax in 1997. This makes it difficult to measure the distribution of wealth and capital incomes …. Moreover, at the conceptual level, top household income shares underestimate the rise of inequality in Germany because much of …