little has been known about them. As a result, the full extent of wealth concentration in Germany was unknown. To close the … Germany is higher than previously thought. The top ten percent possess over two thirds of all individual net assets, while … 22 percent as previously thought. Around 1.5 per- cent of adults in Germany have assets in the amount of at least one …

household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between … and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … Germany, augmented wealth (US$651,000) is only 1.4 times higher. Further, the inclusion of pension wealth in household wealth …

This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using … harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has … inequality reveals the effects of Germany's slightly older population and smaller household sizes, as well as the impact of …

Analyse der Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland einbezogen. Im Ergebnis führt dies bei den verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen zu …

satisfaction and exposure to risk of dying. Application of the test using two sets of survey data from Germany and Australia … the reduction of risks to their lives which should be used for public decisions on risk-reducing projects. They suggest to … correct observed WTP for the "dead-anyway" effect, which says that WTP increases with the level of risk to which the …

-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequality in Germany over the last two decades. Whereas the … inequality and relative poverty, very much driven by the increasing share of outright ownership among the elderly. On the other … effects to increase over time. The analyses presented here, exemplified for Germany, make a clear case for the joint …