The inheritance tax is often seen as an effective tool to reduce wealth inequality, to raise public budgets if needed … tool for fighting wealth inequality without having distorting effects for the economy. For this purpose, the distributional …

increased redistribution from upper to lower incomes. Whatare the effects of this additional government redistribution along the …

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of …

, we analyse the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax benefit systems in the EUR-15 countries. We show that … the German system as a whole employs only a medium level of redistribution. However, this can be decomposed into a highly …

the ongoing policy debate in Germany. In this paper, we compare the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax … tax benefit systems in a common framework. We compute several measures of progressivity and redistribution for the whole … the countries according to their progressivity and level of redistribution. Our analysis shows that there is considerable …

What was the impact of urban political structure on economic inequality in preindustrial times? I document that more … closed political institutions were associated with higher economic inequality in a panel of early modern German cities. To … inequality. To mitigate concerns about reverse causality, I exploit the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) as a plausibly exogenous …

inequality of wages and salaries earned over an entire working lifetime using a new kind of dataset. The findings show that the … inequality of lifetime social security earnings of western German male workers doubled between the 1935 and 1972 birth cohorts … wage scale. The remainder is caused by a wider distribution of earnings. The greater inequality of lifetime earnings could …

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 …

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 …