Publications
NEW Long-term effects of equal sharing: Evidence from inheritance rules for land
with Simon Jäger and Natalie Obergruber, CEPR DP No. 18838, conditionally accepted at Economic Journal.
Summary: VOXEU
NEW Accounting for pension wealth, the missing rich and under-coverage: A comprehensive wealth distribution for Germany
with Timm Bönke, Rick Glaubitz, Markus Grabka and Carsten Schröder, Economics Letters 231 (2023):111299.
NEW Testing Marx. Capital Accumulation, Income Inequality, and Socialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
with Felix Kersting and Nikolaus Wolf, CRC TRR 190 Discussion Paper No. 374, online first Review of Economics and Statistics.
Summaries: VOXEU and BSE Insights
Drivers of participation elasticities across Europe: Gender or earner role within the household? with Cortnie Shupe, International Tax and Public Finance 30 (2023): 167–214.
Redistribution and insurance around the world with Dirk Neumann, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 123(4) (2021): 1116-1158.
Redistribution Revisited: Insuring Risks in the Long Run in Stone Center Blog post
A novel sampling strategy for surveying high-worth individuals – An application using the Socio-Economic Panel with Carsten Schröder, Markus Grabka, Johannes König, Martin Kroh, and Rainer Siegers, Review of Income and Wealth 66(4) (2020): 825-849.
A tale of two countries: The long shadow of the crisis on income and wealth in Germany and Italy with Salvatore Morelli, Journal of Modern European History 19(1) (2020): 33-39.
Top incomes in Germany, 1871-2014, Journal of Economic History 79(3) (2019): 669-707.
Summary in the World Inequality Report 2018
"Ungleich" in Die Zeit; "Das ist eine politische Frage" in Der Freitag; "Deutschland ist so ungleich wie vor 100 Jahren" in Süddeutsche Zeitung; "Die Reichen werden immer reicher" in Handelsblatt; "Sonntagsfrage: Was halten Sie davon, dass der Reichtum in Deutschland so ungleich verteilt ist wie zuletzt 1913?" in Der Postillon
Check the World Inequality Database (WID) for my latest update of German top income share series
An integrated approach for a top-corrected income distribution with Maria Metzing, Journal of Economic Inequality 17(2) (2019): 125-143.
Children’s opportunities in Germany – An application using multidimensional measures with M. Stockhausen, German Economic Review 18(3) (2017): 327-376.
Short- and long-term participation tax rates and their impact on labor supply with Nico Pestel, International Tax and Public Finance 23(6) (2016): 1126-1159.
Can households and welfare states mitigate rising earnings instability? with Timm Bönke, Review of Income and Wealth 59(2) (2013): 250-282.
Redistribution and insurance in the German welfare state, Schmollers Jahrbuch 132(2) (2012): 265-295.
Books
Versicherung und Anreize im deutschen Wohlfahrtsstaat, Springer Gabler: Wiesbaden (2014).
Book chapter
Einkommen, Vermögen und ökonomische Ungleichheit (with Jan-Ottmar Hesse), in: Rahlf, Thomas (ed.): Deutschland in Daten - Zeitreihen zur Historischen Statistik, Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2022.
Data download: www.deutschland-in-daten.de
Inequality and its drivers in Germany, 1840–1914 (with Thilo Albers), in: Pfister, U. and N. Wolf (eds.): An Economic History of the First German Unification, Routledge, 2023.
German version: Phasen und Triebkräfte der Ungleichheit in Deutschland von 1840 bis 1914 (with Thilo Albers), in: Hesse, J.-O., Pfister, U., Spoerer, M. and N. Wolf (eds.): Deutschland 1871: Die Nationalstaatsgründung und der Weg in die moderne Wirtschaft, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021, 291-312.
Top incomes and inequality (with Daniel Waldenström), in: Zimmermann, K.F. (ed.): Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022.
Distributional National Accounts: A Macro-Micro Approach to Inequality in Germany (with S. Bach and T. Neef), in: Chetty, R., Friedman, J. N., Gornick, J.C., Johnson, B. and A. Kennickell (eds.): Measuring distribution and mobility of income and wealth, University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Other publications
Immobilien und Ungleichheit with L. Maaßen, Vierteljahreshefte der Wirtschaftsforschung 91, 2022, 39-52.
Der lange Schatten der Krise, in: Rodenstock, R. and N. Sevsay-Tegethoff (eds.): In Deutschland neu denken - Starke Gesellschaft, starke Wirtschaft, starkes Ich, RHI Zukunftsnavigator 2021, Murmann Publishers.
Die Bedeutung von Mieteinkommen und Immobilien für die Ungleichheit in Deutschland with Carsten Schröder, Wirtschaftsdienst 10, 2020, 741-746.
The role of rental income, real estate and rents for inequality in Germany with Carsten Schröder, Forum New Economy - Basic Paper 03/2020.
Steigende Polarisierung der Markteinkommen, in: Ungleichheit unter der Lupe – neue politische Antworten auf ein bekanntes Thema, ifo Schnelldienst 73 (02), 2020, 03-26.
Income, consumption and wealth inequality in Germany: Three concepts, three stories? with Carsten Schröder, Forum New Economy - Basic Paper 02/2020.
Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland, DIW-Wochenbericht Nr. 3/2018.
Trends in global income inequality – Germany, in: Alvaredo, F., Chancel, L., Piketty, T., Saez, E. and G. Zucman (eds.): World Inequality Report 2018, World Inequality Lab, Paris.
Development of Top Incomes in Germany since 2001 with Carsten Schröder, DIW Economic Bulletin Nr.1/2/2016.
The Role of Capital Income for Top Income Shares in Germany with Katharina Jenderny, World Top Incomes Database (WTID) Working Paper Nr.1/2015.
Die statistische Erfassung hoher Einkommen, Vermögen und Erbschaften in Deutschland with Timm Bönke, in P. Bofinger, G. Horn, K. Schmid and T. van Treeck (Eds.): Thomas Piketty und die Verteilungsfrage Analysen, Bewertungen und wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen für Deutschland, SE Publishing (2015), 156-188.