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Bartels, Charlotte; Kersting, Felix; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023

We study the dynamics of capital accumulation, income inequality, capital concentration, and voting up to 1914. Based on new panel data for Prussian regions, we re-evaluate the famous Revisionism Debate between orthodox Marxists and their critics. We show that changes in capital accumulation led...

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Long-term trends in the distribution of wealth and inheritance

Davies, James B.; Lluberas, Rodrigo; Waldenström, Daniel - 2024

This paper examines long-term trends in aggregate wealth and inheritance and in their distributions, focusing on developed economies. A key stylized fact is that wealth is less equally distributed than income. Financial assets predominate among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is...

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Gestiegene Vermögensungleichheit in Deutschland

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 4, pp. 54-67

Das individuelle Nettovermögen in Deutschland betrug zum Jahresbeginn 2007 im Durchschnitt rund 88 000 Euro und ist … Sachvermögen. Insgesamt hat die Vermögensungleichheit in Deutschland seit 2002 weiter zugenommen. Im Rahmen dieser Entwicklung …

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Ungleichheit unter der Lupe – neue politische Antworten auf ein bekanntes Thema

Niehues, Judith; Stockhausen, Maximilian; Peichl, Andreas; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 73 (2020) 02, pp. 03-26

Ungleichheit insgesamt ansteige. Dies bedeute jedoch nicht, dass es einer Person, die vorher in Deutschland lebe, schlechter gehe … Markteinkommen in Deutschland in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten drastisch gestiegen ist, da die Kapiteleinkommen stärker gewachsen sind … interessieren, welche Einkommensverteilung der Marktmechanismus generiere. Mario Bossler, Bernd Fitzenberger, Institut für …

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Income and wealth inequality after the financial crisis : the case of Germany

Grabka, Markus M. - 2015

The topic of rising income inequality does not only gain in relevance since the two prominent reports by the OECD (Growing unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries, Paris 2008; Divided we stand-Why inequality keeps rising, Paris 2011) but rather since the financial crisis. So far...

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Inequality Trends for Germany in the Last Two Decades : A Tale of Two Countries

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Sommer, Mathias C. - 2009

In this paper we document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German unification (which happened politically in 1990 and in our data...

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Testing Marx : income inequality, concentration, and socialism in late 19th century Germany

Bartels, Charlotte; Kersting, Felix; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2021

We study the dynamics of income inequality, capital concentration, and voting outcomes before 1914. Based on new panel data for Prussian counties and districts we re-evaluate the key economic debate between Marxists and their critics before 1914. We show that the increase in inequality was...

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Poverty in early modern Europe : new approaches to old problems

Alfani, Guido; Ammannati, Francesco; Ryckbosch, Wouter - 2022

Earlier research on poverty failed to provide us with consistent measures of its prevalence across space and time. This is due to the limitations of the available sources and to the difficulty of applying to them the poverty definitions of modern social science. This article discusses different...

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Inequality and growth in the very long run : inferring inequality from data on social groups

Modalsli, Jørgen Heibø - 2011 - Publisert 1. apr. 2011 12:06

Income distribution data from before the Industrial Revolution usually comes in the shape of social tables: inventories of a range of social groups and their mean incomes. These are frequently reported without adjusting for within-group income dispersion, leading to a systematic downward bias in...

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Chapter 8. Post-1970 Trends in Within-Country Inequality and Poverty : Rich and Middle-Income Countries

Morelli, Salvatore; Smeeding, Timothy; Thompson, Jeffrey - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 593-696). 2015

Like the other chapters in this volume of the Handbook of Income Distribution (and its predecessor), the aim of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area of research. We examine the literature on post-1970 trends in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011...

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