The public and social sciences debate how exactly citizens perceive economic and the extent to which misperceptions influence distributional policy preferences. The article examines this using the example of a wealth tax in Germany, which was suspended in 1996 and whose reintroduction is...

This paper evaluates income distributions in four European countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and Hungary) using two complementary approaches: a standard approach based on reported incomes in survey data, and a microsimulation approach, where taxes and benefits are simulated. Given that benefit...

This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...