Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 90
Cover Image
Improving the coverage of the top-wealth population in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
Schröder, Carsten; Bartels, Charlotte; Göbler, Konstantin - 2020
the top end of the wealth distribution in Germany. The SOEP-P population has about 21 times higher net wealth on average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390086
Cover Image
Millionaires under the microscope : data gap on top wealth holders closed : wealth concentration higher than presumed
Schröder, Carsten; Bartels, Charlotte; Göbler, Konstantin - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 30/31, pp. 313-322
little has been known about them. As a result, the full extent of wealth concentration in Germany was unknown. To close the … previously it was thought to only be 59 percent. The richest percent of the population has around 35 percent of the wealth, not … million euros. These individuals do not only differ from the rest of the population in terms of wealth: They are also more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262359
Cover Image
Wealth and its distribution in Germany, 1895-2018
Albers, Thilo N. H.; Bartels, Charlotte; Schularick, Moritz - 2022
insights into the role of country-specific shocks in shaping long-run wealth dynamics. This paper presents the first … comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution in Germany since the 19th century. We combine tax and archival data, household … surveys, historical national accounts, and rich lists to analyze the evolution of the German wealth distribution over the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187686
Cover Image
Wealth and its Distribution in Germany, 1895-2018
Albers, Thilo N. H.; Bartels, Charlotte; Schularick, Moritz - 2022
insights into the role of country-specific shocks in shaping long-run wealth dynamics. This paper presents the first … comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution in Germany since the 19th century. We combine tax and archival data, household … surveys, historical national accounts, and rich lists to analyze the evolution of the German wealth distribution over the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013289690
Cover Image
Born in the land of milk and honey : the impact of economic growth on individual wealth accumulation
Bartels, Charlotte; König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2021
's birth place is an important determinant for wealth in adulthood. We exploit a new dataset that oversamples wealthy … individuals in Germany and includes information on birth district, current residence, individual wealth, gifts and inheritances … and parental background. To identify the effect of economic growth on children's wealth we match the population of heirs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330661
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Wealth Creators or Inheritors? Unpacking the Gender Wealth Gap From Bottom to Top and Young to Old
Bartels, Charlotte; Sierminska, Eva; Schroeder, Carsten - 2023
This paper investigates the gender wealth gap using wealth recorded in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ranking women … and men by their individual wealth reveals that the average gender wealth gap is driven by the large gap in the top tail …. We find that the gender wealth gap widens during working age and closes during retirement. This is associated with men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350901
Cover Image
Accounting for Pension Wealth, the Missing Rich and Under-Coverage : A Comprehensive Wealth Distribution for Germany
Bartels, Charlotte; Boenke, Timm; Glaubitz, Rick; … - 2023
This study constructs a comprehensive wealth distribution for Germany to inform debate in Germany and internationally … on the distribution of wealth including pension entitlements. We estimate the net present value of pension wealth in … Germany in 2012 and 2017 using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data. When including pension wealth, German households’ wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350938
Cover Image
Wealth and its distribution in Germany, 1895-2018
Albers, Thilo N. H.; Bartels, Charlotte; Schularick, Moritz - 2022
insights into the role of country-specific shocks in shaping long-run wealth dynamics. This paper presents the first … comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution in Germany since the 19th century. We combine tax and archival data, household … surveys, historical national accounts, and rich lists to analyze the evolution of the German wealth distribution over the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013194250
Cover Image
Wealth and its distribution in Germany, 1895-2018
Albers, Thilo N. H.; Bartels, Charlotte; Schularick, Moritz - 2022
insights into the role of country-specific shocks in shaping long-run wealth dynamics. This paper presents the first … comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution in Germany since the 19th century. We combine tax and archival data, household … surveys, historical national accounts, and rich lists to analyze the evolution of the German wealth distribution over the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361274