Top distributions of income and wealth are still incompletely measured in many national statistics, particularly when … estimation of these two top distributions by using the best data available for Germany. We leverage the bivariate copula to … extrapolate both income and wealth distributions from German PHF (Panel on Household Finance) data under the incidental truncation …

of capital (or an increase in capital productivity) causes employment and wage polarization. Specifically, further … automation - thereafter inducing monotone increases in skill premia rather than wage polarization. …

inequality through a real-world policy, rather than experimental treatments, may trigger only marginal changes in support for …

That historical inequality can affect long run macroeconomic performance has been argued by a large literature on … endogenous inequality using models of indivisibilities in occupational choice, in the presence of borrowing constraints. These …

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …

correlate with household net wealth (or income). Bond price increases thus leave net wealth inequality largely unchanged. In … wealth inequality. Housing price increases display a hump shaped pattern over the net wealth distribution, with the poorest …

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …