In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes, which take into...

Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardesthit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...

Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardesthit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...

The distributional consequences of the recent economic crisis are still broadly unknown. While it is possible to speculate which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking due to a lack of real-time microdata. This paper studies the...

Am 14. Dezember 2017 stellte das ifo Institut seine Prognose für die Jahre 2017, 2018 und 2019 vor. Der Aufschwung, in dem sich die deutsche Wirtschaft seit nunmehr 2013 befindet, hat sich merklich beschleunigt. Das ifo Institut rechnet mit einem Zuwachs des realen Bruttoinlandsprodukts von...