We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us - for the first time - to offer a complete picture of the … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …

In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history …, income, and demographics. Focusing on males, we document that income risk is highly unequal in Spain: more than half of the …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us - for the first time - to offer a complete picture of the … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …

In this paper, we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history …, income, and demographics. Focusing on males, we document that income risk is highly unequal in Spain: More than half of the …

This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on … representative survey, we find the rich are less empathetic. In our baseline model, people at the bottom of the income distribution … report 10% more items as essential than do people at the top of the income distribution. The negative relationship between …

This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions …

This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents … evidence that income is likely to be under-recorded for households with low resources. It describes the different impressions … an imputed income from housing, rather than near-cash income. It describes what different impressions one gets about the …

Income mobility is often thought to equalize permanent incomes and thereby to improve social welfare. The welfare … comparative) impact of mobility and of the tax system (another presumed income equalizer) on the dynamics of income across time … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada's tax system limits …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …