This study was prepared by Beate Schirwitz while she was working at the Ifo Institute’s Dresden Branch. It was completed in February 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in July 2012. It focuses on a...

This dissertation consists of six self-contained chapters that are related to the behavior of firms and politicians in a broader sense. After an introduction to the topic, the first part of the dissertation elaborates on how institutional and political framework conditions influence the behavior...

Der Autor untersucht in diesem Werk empirisch zwei zentrale Komponenten der Einkommensverteilung: die Einkommensungleichheit und den Reichtum. Schwerpunkt der Arbeit ist die Analyse der Faktoren, die die Höhe der Einkommensungleichheit in Deutschland beeinflussen. Zur Quantifizierung des...