Detlefsen, Lena Mareike - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 132 (2012) 2, pp. 297-321
Under mild assumptions, Shorrocks (1978) has proved that measured inequality must decrease when the period over which income is measured, the accounting period, increases. The present work seeks to shed light on the quantitative size of this effect using a huge representative German database for...