We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us - for the first time - to offer a complete picture of the … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …

effect of the coronavirus crisis on household income and retirement wealth, households’ expectations about the recovery, and … pronounced for middle-age households and those higher in the wealth and income distributions. This contrasts with income shocks …, which are stronger for younger households and those in lower income and wealth quintiles. Expectations about household …

I study the optimal taxation of robots and labor income. In the model, robots substitute for routine labor and …. The robot tax exploits general-equilibrium effects to compress the wage distribution. Wage compression reduces income …

We introduce permanently-shifting income shares into a standard growth model with two types of agents. Capital owners … replicate the observed U.S. time paths of the top quintile income share, capital’s share of income, and key macroeconomic …

We examine the determinants of income mobility and inequality in a Ramsey model with elastic labor supply and … rate reduce capital income inequality and allow upward mobility of the ability-rich. However, the increase in the labor … result, high mobility can be associated with an increase or a decrease in overall income inequality. …

We show that a recent appendix to the Gini-coefficient to make the latter more sensitive to asymmetric income … distributions can be viewed as an abstract measure of skewness. We develop some of its properties and apply it to the US-income …