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 … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be …