This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....

What share of total income in Germany is owned by the country's top income earners and how has this share developed over the past decade? Answers to these questions can be found both in representative survey data such as the longitudinal Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and in administrative...

Wie hoch ist der Einkommensanteil der Spitzenverdiener am Gesamteinkommen in Deutschland, und wie hat sich dieser im vergangenen Jahrzehnt entwickelt? Antworten darauf findet man sowohl in repräsentativen Befragungsdaten wie der Langzeitstudie Soziooekonomisches Panel (SOEP) als auch in...

This paper evaluates income distributions in four European countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and Hungary) using two complementary approaches: a standard approach based on reported incomes in survey data, and a microsimulation approach, where taxes and benefits are simulated. Given that benefit...