Bartels, Charlotte; Neef, Theresa - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 104 (2024) 7, pp. 441-447
This article outlines income and wealth distribution trends in Germany since the 19th century, compared to other … Western industrialised countries. We first discuss the evolution of aggregate wealth-to-income ratios. We then explore how the … concentration of income and wealth among the top percentile evolved since the 19th century. For the period after 1990, we analyse …