Zusammenfassung Die vorliegende Untersuchung befaßt sich mit alternativen Verfahren zur Berücksichtigung von Einkommensvorteilen aus selbstgenutztem Wohneigentum („Imputed Rent“) und deren Einfluß auf individuelle Einkommen sowie die personelle Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland. Nach...

This article deals with various methods concerning income advantages of owner occupied housing (imputed rental value or imputed rents), which shows to be one of the most important non-monetary income components. We also explore the effects of such advantages on the personal distribution of...

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...

While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting...