Behringer, Jan; Theobald, Thomas; Treeck, Till van - Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung … - 2014
Household surveys like the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) notoriously underestimate the degree of income and wealth inequality at the upper end of the distribution. A new approach developed by Thomas Piketty and co-authors therefore analyses tax return data in an attempt at better measuring...