This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro …-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for the UK, the SOEP for … high contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA …

In trying to capture complete within-household heterogeneity, household panel surveys typically try to interview all … household income. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the authors evaluate four different strategies to deal … results in inequality research. The authors find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well as …

Einkommensteuerstatistik und Sozio-oekonomischem Panel (SOEP) ermittelt, die auch die sehr hohen Einkommen vollständig erfasst. Daten des SOEP …

This study measures the impact of changes in the income determinants on inequality in the 1990 to 2003 period, in order … determinant factors and changes in income inequality. It is analyzed the role of returns, participation rates, occupational … choices, schooling endowments, subsidies, pensions and household size. The inertia shown by inequality reflects the interplay …

Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight … household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality … rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is …

approach to inequality measurement when defining pro-poor growth. With a relative approach to pro-poor growth it is assumed … that inequality does not to vary when all incomes are multiplied by a constant whereas, with an absolute approach to pro …-poor growth, inequality is supposed not to vary when an equal sum is added to all incomes. The empirical illustration covers the …

income inequality, particularly the severe impact of the cost disease,which disproportionately affects the poorer segments of …