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Identifying income and wealth-poor households in the euro area
Müller, Philip; Schmidt, Tobias - 2015
from the 2010 Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). We are particularly interested in the way in which specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373659
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Distributional consequences of asset price inflation in the euro area
Adam, Klaus; Tzamourani, Panagiota - 2015
households using data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). The capital gains from bond price and equity … price increases turn out to be concentrated among relatively few households, while the median household strongly benefits … from housing price increases. The capital gains from bond price increases (relative to household net wealth) do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316626
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How inheritances shape wealth distributions : an international comparison
Bönke, Timm; Werder, Marten von; Westermeier, Christian - 2016
We use data from the European Household Finance and Consumption Survey in order to examine the distributional effect of … inequality in household wealth in all 8 countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573797
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Estimating regional wealth in Germany : how different are East and West really?
Kreutzmann, Ann-Kristin; Marek, Philipp; Salvati, Nicola; … - 2019
(Raumordnungsregionen) in Germany based on the second wave of the Panel on Household Finances (PHF) conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101276
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Love and money with inheritance : marital sorting by labor income and inherited wealth in the modern partnership
Pasteau, Etienne; Zhu, Junyi - 2018
forming partnerships using data for Germany from the Panel on Household Finances (PHF). Relative to France, Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874278
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A joint top income and wealth distribution
Steiner, Viktor; Zhu, Junyi - 2021
extrapolate both income and wealth distributions from German PHF (Panel on Household Finance) data under the incidental truncation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424292
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Taxation of top incomes and tax avoidance
Di Nola, Alessandro; Kocharkov, Georgi; Scholl, Almuth; … - 2024
This paper studies the aggregate and distributional effects of raising the top marginal income tax rate in the presence of tax avoidance. To this end, we develop a quantitative macroeconomic model with heterogeneous agents and occupational choice in which entrepreneurs can avoid taxes in two...
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Industrialization, returns, inequality
Albers, Thilo N. H.; Kersting, Felix; Stieglitz, Timo - 2023
How does revolutionary technological change impact wealth inequality? We turn to the mother of all technological shocks–the Industrial Revolution–and analyze its role for wealth concentration both empirically and theoretically. Based on a novel dataset on wealth shares at the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014487319
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Testing Marx
Bartels, Charlotte; Kersting, Felix; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023
We study the dynamics of capital accumulation, income inequality, capital concentration, and voting up to 1914. Based on new panel data for Prussian regions, we re-evaluate the famous Revisionism Debate between orthodox Marxists and their critics. We show that changes in capital accumulation led...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477385
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Horizontal equity in the German tax-benefit system : a simulation approach for employees
Bönke, Timm; Eichfelder, Sebastian - 2010
be regarded as "fair" we compare the equivalent incomes of eight different household types. Using the concepts of system … in the high income brackets tend to be privileged. The equity in the treatment of a household type is not only affected … by the amount but also by the distribution of income between the household members. Based on these results we can state a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962820