Individuals with assets in the millions of euros have been underrepresented in population surveys and accordingly little has been known about them. As a result, the full extent of wealth concentration in Germany was unknown. To close the existing data gap, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) inte-...

Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further...

Social security entitlements are a substantial source of wealth that grows in importance over the individual's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that...

Die jüngsten Reformen der Bundesregierung zur Konsolidierung der finanziellen Lage der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung (GRV) belasten vermehrt die heutige Rentnergeneration. Eine Beschreibung der Lebenslage und Einkommenssituation von älteren Menschen gibt Hinweise, ob diese Maßnahmen zu...