in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

part of the paper tackles the challenge of comparability of income-tax based estimates across countries and across time …. The second part summarizes the evidence about top income shares. Across these five countries, the shares of the very … share of the next 4 percent. The third part of the paper looks at the relationship between taxes and top income shares …

low-income mobility in general is higher in the UK than in Germany and that gender-gap regarding the low-wage mobility is … Niedrigeinkommensmobilität von Selbständigen und abhängig Beschäftigten in Deutschland und im Vereinigten Königreich (UK) zu analysieren. Hierzu … Arbeitsplatzwechsel in UK die Wahrscheinlichkeit für Mobilität verringert, erhöht ein Arbeitsplatzwechsel in Deutschland sowohl …

’s income. Even for those who claim the inclusion of inherited wealth in the beneficiary’s income tax base, the features of the … wealth, notwithstanding their inclusion in the income tax base. In the author’s opinion, the foregoing is a serious argument … against including inheritances in the concept of taxable income. The special treatment to be accorded to inherited wealth, as …

aim of the present paper is twofold: Firstly, we detail the tax mix of four member states of the European Union (Germany … Union ; tax mix of Germany ; the Netherlands ; Spain and United Kingdom …-Mitgliedsländer (Deutschland, Niederlande, Spanien und Großbritannien) ein. Zweitens wird die Verteilung der Steuerlast über reiche und arme …

This paper compares and assesses the income inequality between five European countries in the mid 1990's, employing the … non-parametric technique of kernel density estimation. The countries used in this inequality exercise were Germany … the PACO project. Kernel density estimates were found particularly revealing for comparing the shape of income …

aim of the present paper is twofold: Firstly, we detail the tax mix of four member states of the European Union (Germany …

In a simple 2-period model of relative income under uncertainty, higher comparison income for the younger cohort can … signal higher or lower expected lifetime relative income, and hence either increase or decrease well-being. With data from … the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey, we first confirm the standard negative effects of …