This paper presents new information on the fraction of adjusted gross income, and of wages and salaries, that is … reported by taxpayers in the top one half of one percent of the income distribution. This corresponds to roughly five hundred … thousand households in the late 1990s. This paper relies on data from the Treasury's Individual Income Tax Model for the period …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us - for the first time - to offer a complete picture of the … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …

This paper studies the income of Swedish households belonging to the baby boom generation, i.e., those born in the 1940 …-50. An international comparison as well as an historical presentation of income patterns is given. However, the main purpose … is to generate the future income of the baby boom generation as they get older. A major result is that the income …

This paper applies the German Socio-Economic Panel to analyse the effect of within household in-come comparison on … nine per cent. To state the economic significance,ae70,000 increase in external, peer reference income corresponds to a … quartiles, lower education and total income households, East German couples andhouseholds with greater fulltime employment share …

In September 2016, real disposable income and real wage were 97.2% and 102.8%, respectively, compared to the same … years, real disposable income decreased by 8.7% while retail sales of food and non-food products fell even more – by 13 …

We estimate household equivalence scales using income satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We extend … previous studies applying this approach by taking reference income into account. This allows separating needs-based from … reference effects in the determination of income satisfaction. We show that this adjustment helps to overcome a bias causing an …

In this paper, we show how the inequality of the income distribution of a population can be measured with the … percentile income shares, or with the mean income of each percentile and the mean income of the population, with a negligible …

of answering this question is to compare two or more comparable cross sections and gauge changing income inequality among … panel income changes. How do these two approaches relate to one another? This paper shows, first, that it is possible to … have all four combinations – rising or falling inequality and divergent or convergent panel income changes, and second …