Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008
contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro … SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied …