in almost all highly developed countries (after a long period of inequality decrease from World War II until the 1980s … of wealth and income in Liechtenstein. While wealth inequality in Liechtenstein has increased since the 1960s, income … equality has remained stable over time. …

Inheritances have been growing as a share of national income in the UK since the 1970s. This trend looks set to … save today? New IFS research, released today and funded by the Nuffield foundation, makes projections of the inheritances …

area and assess progress. This paper presents such a methodology, which allows a rough assessment of the potential impacts … of development cooperation on income, consumption and wealth inequality. This is important, as a rigorous causal analysis … of the contribution development cooperation makes to reducing a partner country's inequality is complex and costly. First …

Einkommensverteilung, lässt sich eine Einkommensmitte im engeren Sinn ausmachen, zu der rund die Hälfte der Bevölkerung zählt. Zwar ist der …As a stabilising anchor between the poor and the rich the middle-income band of the population has always had a special … importance in policy debates. However, there has never been a generally accepted definition of this group. The present paper …

We examine German administrative tax data and find that six in ten self-employed individuals obtain annual incomes of … less than 10,000 Euro with their entrepreneurial activity. However, many of these self-employed achieve additional incomes … most of the self-employed are able to save for retirement. …

career and in their choice for an occupation. Chapter 2 explores consequences of parental separation for cognitive skill … development of children. In the year before parental separation occurs children are negatively affected in their cognitive skill … development. Chapter 3 investigates the consequences of an institutional reform in the German school system which awards high …

This paper presents the first comprehensive study of the long-run evolution of wealth inequality in Germany. We combine … tax data, surveys, national accounts and rich lists to study the distribution of wealth in Germany from 1895 to 2018. We … show that the concentration of wealth in the hands of the top 1% has fallen by half,from close to 50% in 1895 to less than …