Elite occupations are characterised by the magnitude of income accumulation which has been particularly exacerbated in …

how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental … health is positively associated with own and spousal income. However, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income … cent. This effect does not appear driven by divorce or spouses being on different income trajectories. …

We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would …

Although the determinants of income are complex, the results are surprisingly uniform. To a first approximation, top … incomes follow a power-law distribution, and the redistribution of income corresponds to a change in the power-law exponent …)distribution of top incomes is uniform because it is shaped by a ubiquitous feature of social life, namely hierarchy. Using a model …

This paper analyzes the distribution and composition of pre-tax national income in Germany since 1992, combining … personal income tax returns, household survey data, and national accounts. Inequality rose from the 1990s to the late 2000s due … incomes across the bottom 90% increased. The top 1% income share, dominated by business income, remained relatively stable …

Mobility of top incomes matters for both the openness of the income elite and the share of total income that this group … receives. It is thus an important complement information to the growing snapshot literature on top income concentration. I use … microlevel panel data of German income tax files that is highly representative for top income households. Top income mobility is …

A large literature has documented top income share series based on income tax statistics using the common methodology … established by Piketty (2001, 2003). The disappearance of capital income from the income tax base in many countries poses a major … simulating legislative definitions of capital income prevailing in Germany between 2001 and 2010. For both simulation and the …