microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living …Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … Conditions (EU-SILC) as well as data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). In addition to their significance for national …

Die Studie untersucht die Einkommen und die Einkommensverteilung der Freien Berufe anhand der Mikrozensusergebnisse für …-Selbständige) gegenübergestellt. Dem Einkommen und der Einkommensverteilung der selbständigen Frauen in Freien Berufen im Vergleich zu den Männern ist … Mikrozensusangaben der insgesamt 800.000 Befragten aus einer Sonderauswertung für die Freien Berufe werden Einkommen und …

particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the … consider the relationship between income/wealth and life satisfaction, another variable captured in TILDA. We find that income …

, income and welfare state policies in explaining differences in household net wealth within and between euro area countries … wealth percentiles. At the same time, each additional percentile in the income distribution is associated with about 0.4 net …Using microdata from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), this study examines the role of inheritance …

strong income gradient in tax response within the top, underlining the importance to study even small top groups separately …. Several mechanisms are investigated. Tax-driven income shifting between wage and capital income is important in the very top …

strong income gradient in tax response within the top, underlining the importance to study even small top groups separately …. Several mechanisms are investigated. Tax-driven income shifting between wage and capital income is important in the very top …

It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down floors …

We calibrate a sequence of four nested models to study the dynamics of wealth accumulation. Individuals maximize a … utility function whose arguments are consumption and investment. They desire to accumulate wealth for its own sake - this is … reduce the tax rate on capital income. The third model introduces differential rates of return to capitals of different sizes …

income-enhancing physical traits. To illustrate how heredity produces intergenerational economic effects, this study uses one … from the literatures describing the impact of beauty on earnings and the intergenerational elasticity of income suggests …