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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992-2001
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017459
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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992 - 2001
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963679
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Zunehmende Ungleichheit der Markteinkommen: reale Zuwächse nur für Reiche
Bach, Stefan; Steiner, Viktor - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 13, pp. 193-198
Über die 90er Jahre hat die Ungleichheit der am Markt erzielten Bruttoeinkommen - Löhne und Gehälter, Unternehmer- sowie Vermögenseinkommen - in Deutschland zugenommen. Während die preisbereinigten Einkommen im Durchschnitt konstant blieben, gab es für die oberen 10 % der...
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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992-2001
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703074
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Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes
Andrienko, Yuri; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884365
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Mobility of top incomes in Germany
Jenderny, Katharina - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2013
Mobility of top incomes matters for both the openness of the income elite and the share of total income that this group receives. It is thus an important complement information to the growing snapshot literature on top income concentration. I use microlevel panel data of German income tax files...
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Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes
Andrienko, Yuri; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2014
In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079145
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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992-2001
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124248
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How Closely Do Top Income Shares Track Other Measures of Inequality?
Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007
countries, I find that there is a strong and significant relationship between top income shares and broader inequality measures … measures of inequality over periods when alternative income distribution measures are of low quality, or unavailable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967999
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Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Lüthen, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …
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