We document the cyclical behavior of the post-tax income distribution in the US. The analysis is based on a dataset that is informative for the lower and the upper tail of the post-tax income distribution and that also matches aggregate national income. Most importantly, lower and higher income...

Using a wide variety of business cycle dating and filtering techniques, this paper documents the cyclical behavior of the post-tax income distribution in the US. First, all incomes are cyclical and co-move with the business cycle. Second, lower and higher income individuals experience...

Im Zentrum der Kommunikationswissenschaft stehen Medienwirkungen, im Zentrum der Volkswirtschaftslehre steht die Konjunktur. Medienwirkungen im thematischen Kontext der Konjunktur hat die Kommunikationswissenschaft aber noch kaum untersucht, so wie die Rolle der Medien im gesamtwirtschaftlichen...