Das Gesetz zur steuerlichen Förderung der Mitarbeiterkapitalbeteiligung rückt die Verteilungssituation in Deutschland ins Blickfeld. Mittels einer profunden Analyse der Vermögensverteilung in Deutschland anhand der Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels wird in dieser Arbeit die gegenwärtige...

This study explores the extent to which inequality affects the impact of income growth on the rates of poverty changes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) compared to non-SSA, based on a global sample of 1977-2004 unbalanced panel data. For both regions and all three measures of poverty - headcount, gap...

The study of international well-being and its distribution remains focused on income. This paper addresses multidimensional well-being from a capabilities perspective during the last one-and-a-half centuries. Relative inequality (population-weighted) fell in health and education since the late...

This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human wellbeing, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...