We study the dynamics of income inequality, capital concentration, and voting outcomes before 1914. Based on new panel … at the time. In contrast, rising capital concentration was not associated with increasing income inequality. Relying on …

. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after World War I and during the hyperinflation … of the millennium, income concentration in Germany has been on the rise and is today among the highest in Europe …

increasing concentration. New fiscal evidence is adopted to show the increasing relative position of the rich, including new …

-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth … wealth concentration and decreasing capital incomes in the top of the distribution. Thereafter trends are more divergent …