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 …

We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we … estimate the marginal distributions of income and life expectancy separately. More importantly, in contrast to previous … univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy jointly and estimate their bivariate global distribution for 137 …

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

impact of factor substitution and income distribution on economic growth. We can show that this impact relies on both an … the particular savings hypothesis. However, if savings out of capital income are substantial so that a certain threshold …

distributions of endowments also completely determine the effects of trade on income inequality. Then, we prove that there are long …-term gains from trade if the marginal utility of income is constant or as long as losers from trade are compensated by winners …

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 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 … inequality was indeed more due to changes of household structure and employment behavior rather than changes in wages. Moreover …