We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We …

This paper examines the effect of wealth on labour market behaviour. Providing convincing evidence on this relationship … is challenging since wealth and labour supply may be endogenously determined. We overcome this by looking at wealth … theoretical framework which outlines how an individual's labour market behaviour may be expected to react to a wealth shock under …

insights into the role of country-specific shocks in shaping long-run wealth dynamics. This paper presents the first … comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution in Germany since the 19th century. We combine tax and archival data, household … surveys, historical national accounts, and rich lists to analyze the evolution of the German wealth distribution over the long …

insights into the role of country-specific shocks in shaping long-run wealth dynamics. This paper presents the first … comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution in Germany since the 19th century. We combine tax and archival data, household … surveys, historical national accounts, and rich lists to analyze the evolution of the German wealth distribution over the long …

This paper examines the structure and evolution of consumption and consumption growth inequality. Once heterogeneous … agents relate their neighbors' consumption to their own, consumption volatility and inequality are affected. The relationship … predicted between the group average consumption growth and within-group growth inequality was shown as only slightly positive …

wealth levels and (ii) indirectly supporting wealth accumulation by impacting interest rates, borrowing, entrepreneurship …, and spending. A unique Danish policy setting allows me to identify intergenerational wealth transfers channeled through …

This paper examines the structure and evolution of consumption and consumption growth inequality. Once heterogeneous … agents relate their neighbors' consumption to their own, consumption volatility and inequality are affected. The relationship … predicted between the group average consumption growth and within-group growth inequality was shown as only slightly positive …

The rising importance of bequests as a source of personal income lead to renewed interest in the taxation of wealth … almost exclusively occurs for donors rather than recipients of wealth transfers. Beyond, tax planning is more prevalent for …

Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by the VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive … effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was …, the negative effect of social security on fertility tends to erode the system's own contributory base, because it reduces …