German history over the past 125 years has been turbulent. Marked by two world wars,
revolutions and major regime changes, as well as a hyperinflation and three currency …

We use Pareto imputation, survey reweighting, and microsimulation methods applied to
combined household survey and tax return data to re-evaluate trends in income inequality …

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 …

The paper uses the flexibility of household survey data to align their income categories and
recipient units with the income categories and units found in data produced by tax …

This paper provides a novel assessment of how the World Inequality Database (WID) top
income adjustment applied by Blanchet, Chancel, and Gethin (2021) to European Union …

We study how electoral systems affect the presence of women in politics in the context of
Spanish municipal elections, in which national law mandates that municipalities follow one …

It is sometimes observed and frequently assumed that top incomes in household surveys
worldwide are poorly measured and that this problem biases the measurement of income …

This article surveys the measurement of historical wealth and income inequality in Germany.
We discuss the underlying data sources, the challenges they pose, and the opportunities …

This article proposes a practically feasible framework for compiling Multidimensional
Distributional National Accounts (MDINAs) serving two functions: a comprehensive measure …

The paper assesses how top incomes biases affect the estimation of income inequality in the
United States using the Current Population Survey (the March Annual Social and Economic …