the very least, this applies for instance to education and care services for children. A household’s private expenditure …-income households that use a higher share of their household budget for this purpose— this applies both to overall expenditure and to …, the higher the share of the household’s income spent on education. More progressive fee scales could help reducing …

changes the private households-CO2 emissions, living standards, and post-tax income distribution. Our results show that the …

requires, should be easy to empirically disprove: since household-consumption choices differ for households with more members …, aggregation can be rejected if appropriate data violate an affine equa- tion regarding how much individuals benefit from within-household …

of the median. In the US, however, there has been a stronger increase in income polarization than in Germany: in the US …, those who have left the middle-income group tend to be concentrated more on the periphery of the income distribution. The …

percent of the median. In the US, however, there has been a stronger increase in income polarization than in Germany. This is … the income distribution. The share of income accruing to middle-income earners has also dropped substantially in both …

percent of the median. In the US, however, there has been a stronger increase in income polarization than in Germany. This is … the income distribution. The share of income accruing to middle-income earners has also dropped substantially in both …

This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year … decomposition over time. Specifically, we show that the mobility component of the decomposition, as measured by Gini correlation …

-wage threshold, and thus did not decrease the proportion of low-wage employees, although wages at the bottom-end of the distribution … did markedly increase. Wage mobility has hardly changed since the mid-1990s: almost two thirds of employees in the lowest …