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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records

Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015

This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373215

The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records

Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015

This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles forprime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373904

The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records

Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316360

Wealth and politics : studies on inter vivos transfers and partisan effects

Schinke, Christoph - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742787

Accounting for Income Distribution Trends : A Density Function Decomposition Approach

Jenkins, Stephen P.; van Kerm, Philippe - 2004

are analogous to the widely-used decompositions of inequality indices by population subgroup, except that they summarize … are not dependent on the choice of a specific summary index. Nonetheless, since inequality and poverty indices can be …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276944

How the rich are different : hierarchical power as the basis of income size and class

Fix, Blair - 2019 - v.2 October 2019

This paper investigates a new approach to understanding personal and functional income distribution. I propose that hierarchical power - the command of subordinates in a hierarchy - is what distinguishes the rich from the poor and capitalists from workers. Specifically, I hypothesize that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127049

The growth of US top income inequality : a hierarchical redistribution hypothesis

Fix, Blair - 2018

What accounts for the growth of US top income inequality? This paper proposes a hierarchical redistribution hypothesis …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880804

Capitalist income and hierarchical power : a gradient hypothesis

Fix, Blair - 2018

This paper offers a new approach to the study of capitalist income. Building on the "capital as power" framework, I propose that capitalists earn their income not from any productive asset, but from the legal right to command a corporate hierarchy. In short, I hypothesize that capitalist income...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888765

How the rich are different : hierarchical power as the basis of income and class

Fix, Blair - 2019

What makes the rich different? Are they more productive, as mainstream economists claim? I offer another explanation. What makes the rich different, I propose, is hierarchical power. The rich command hierarchies. The poor do not. It is this greater control over subordinates, I hypothesize, that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994821

Why has inequality in Germany not risen further after 2005?

Rehm, Miriam; Schmid, Kai D.; Wang, Dieter - 2014 - This version: September 2014

In this paper we explore the reasons for the trend reversal in the development of household market income inequality in … Germany in the second half of the 2000s. We analyse to what extent the increasing relevance of capital income as well as the … rising share of atypically employed persons have affected the development of income inequality over the last two decades. We …

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