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Income, consumption and wealth inequality in Spain
Anghel, Brindusa; Basso, Henrique S.; Bover, Olympia; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 4, pp. 351-387
This paper analyses the level of inequality in Spain and how it evolved over the course of the past crisis and the … and wealth inequality, and studies how they have developed. The analysis shows less wage dispersion in Spain than in other … inequality in per capita income. The level of inequality in Spain is more moderate when total gross household income is analysed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967426
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The unequal spirit of the protestant reformation: Particularism and wealth distribution in early modern Germany
Schaff, Felix S. F. - 2023
This paper studies the impact of the Protestant Reformation on wealth distribution and inequality in confessionally … insiders only. This gave Protestantism an ambiguous character in terms of redistribution and its impact on inequality. I … framework, I document that the Reformation exacerbated inequality overall, by making marginal poor people relatively poorer. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551699
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The unequal spirit of the protestant reformation : particularism and wealth distribution in early modern Germany
Schaff, Felix S. F. - 2023
This paper studies the impact of the Protestant Reformation on wealth distribution and inequality in confessionally … insiders only. This gave Protestantism an ambiguous character in terms of redistribution and its impact on inequality. I … framework, I document that the Reformation exacerbated inequality overall, by making marginal poor people relatively poorer. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429255
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Income, consumption and wealth inequality in Spain
Anghel, Brindusa; Basso, Henrique; Bover, Olympia; … - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 4, pp. 351-387
This paper analyses the level of inequality in Spain and how it evolved over the course of the past crisis and the … and wealth inequality, and studies how they have developed. The analysis shows less wage dispersion in Spain than in other … inequality in per capita income. The level of inequality in Spain is more moderate when total gross household income is analysed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994624
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Top earners : cross-country facts
Badel, Alejandro; Daly, Moira; Huggett, Mark; Nybom, Martin - 2017
We provide a common set of life-cycle earnings statistics using administrative data from the United States, Canada, Denmark and Sweden. Three qualitative patterns are common across countries: (1) the earnings distribution above the median fans out with age, (2) the extreme right tail of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697392
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Inequality of opportunity in wealth: Levels, trends, and drivers
Graeber, Daniel; Hilbert, Viola; König, Johannes - 2023
and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background …While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ex-ante IOp is defined as the contribution of circumstances to the inequality in net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374802
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Inequality of opportunity in wealth : levels, trends, and drivers
Graeber, Daniel; Hilbert, Viola; König, Johannes - 2023
and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background …While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ex-ante IOp is defined as the contribution of circumstances to the inequality in net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014375149
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Transitioning towards more equality? : wealth gender differences and the changing role of explanatory factors over time
Sierminska, Eva; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Grabka, Markus M. - 2018
We investigate the explanatory factors that have contributed to changing wealth levels and the gender wealth gap in Germany over the period 2002-2012. In particular, we analyze the role of changes in labor supply, permanent income, portfolio composition, and marital status on wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129955
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A wealth tax on the rich to bring down public debt? : revenue and distributional effects of a capital levy
Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2011
The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269236
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Quantile treatment effects of Riester participation on wealth
Ihle, Dorothee - 2017
In numerous industrialized countries the demographic change erodes the financial basis of traditional pay-as-you-go pension systems. To compensate for decreasing statutory pensions, many governments incentivize private saving by means of subsidized retirement plans. In this context, Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695521