Deutschland ist mithin auch auf die starke Einkommensverteilung zurückzuführen. Hinzukommen dürften Verhaltensänderungen …

We empirically investigate whether the significance of intragenerational redistribution in the public pillar of pension … intragenerational redistribution in terms of the Bismarckian factor can be observed. Based on microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study … degree of intragenerational redistribution catching up to more traditional Bismarckian countries (beta convergence). …

This paper investigates the major drivers of governmental redistribution. Extended and harmonised data on effective … redistribution recently provided by the newest version of the Standardized World Income Inequality Database allows for the assessment … of the origins of governmental redistribution for a broad sample of countries. Our findings confirm the Meltzer …