We use a large panel of federal income tax data to investigate intragenerational income mobility in the United States … income taxes stabilize or destabilize post-tax income changes relative to pre-tax changes. We find a relatively high degree … of income mobility, with almost half of workers exhibiting earnings increases or decreases of at least 25 percent, and …

Germany and the United States and introduces an estimation strategy that corrects estimates of intergenerational earnings … is more limited in the US than in Germany. Furthermore, while the errors-in-variables problems have been dealt with … bias is found to be strong in Germany but only modest in the US. -- Intergenerational mobility ; lifecycle bias …

Income inequality has been increasing in the United States over the past 25 years. Many argue that rising inequality is … not a serious issue because income or social mobility reduces inequality and increases well-being. These observers point … to studies showing considerable upward mobility. This study examines income mobility and its relation to income …

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 …

Mikrodaten von Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten der Luxemburg Income Study (LIS) werden verwendet, um die … Äquivalenzskalen ; Deutschland ; USA ; Einkommensverteilung ; Ungleichheit ; Armut …German and United States data from the Luxembourg Income Study are used to compare the relative economic well-being of …

German and United States data from the Luxembourg Income Study are used to compare the relative economic well-being of …-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that … inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of individuals in the income pecking order. We use it to explain … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in …