The general idea is the following: any tax authority that respects basic human rights has to impose taxes on a base to avoid random and arbitrary taxation. The tax base should be announced prior to the imposition of the tax and therefore, taxpayers are given an advanced warning concerning the...

The first essay applies a panel approach to investigate household wealth accumulation and distribution across lifetime income groups for all existing cohorts. Differentiating lifetime income groups with self-reported wages from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and imputing missing pension...