proportion of income) also decline by almost the same amount, suggesting shared understanding that is characteristic of social …

perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the income distribution. Empirically, we conduct a survey experiment in … Austria and show that the average treatment effect of information on perceptions is mostly driven by higher income individuals … while low-income respondents hardly react. We replicate this result for the United States and Germany using data from two …

Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa … significantly affects individual trust behaviour. The low income subjects from both racial groups invest significantly less in … partnerships with the high income subjects of the other racial group than in any other partnership. We attribute this behaviour to …

Empirically, the income share is procyclical for the low-income groups and acyclical for the top 5%. We find that …

returns data. We derive a measure of economic income from taxable gross income as reported in the tax returns. Thanks to … composition by source. We also provide a measure of the effective average rate of taxation for various income groups. Our main … elite relies much less than elites in France or the US upon income from wages and salaries; (iii) income taxes are highly …

income, although the sign of their impact is ambiguous. We use a panel of OECD countries for the period 1970- 96 to examine …, second, that stronger unions and a more generous unemployment benefit tend to reduce income inequality. High capital …

Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood … affect per capita incomes, which has repercussions for the income distribution even if wages remain constant. The aim of this …