Anliegen der Untersuchung ist es, die beträchtliche Disparität aufzuzeigen, die die Vermögensverteilung in Deutschland aufweist. Wohl hatten 1993 fast 97 vH aller westdeutschen Haushalte Geldvermögen; für ein Zehntel von ihnen betrug es aber höchstens 4000 DM, für die Hälfte der...

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) as well as data from the German...

Despite the relatively extensive research on pay levels and the consequences of income disparities, little is known about which reference groups people choose for comparative evaluation of personal income and why different selection patterns emerge. The aim of this paper is to dig deeper for...

This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...