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dc.contributor.authorFräßdorf, Annaen
dc.contributor.authorGrabka, Markus M.en
dc.contributor.authorSchwarze, Johannesen
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-29-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:30:35Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:30:35Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-20080527129en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/34906-
dc.description.abstractThis 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 factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied. The factor decomposition of disposable income into single income components shows that capital income is exceedingly volatile and its share in disposable income has risen in recent years. Moreover, capital income makes a disproportionately high contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular. Thus capital income accounts for a large part of disparity in all three countries.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3492en
dc.subject.jelD33en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordInequalityen
dc.subject.keywordcapital incomeen
dc.subject.keywordfactor decompositionen
dc.subject.keywordCNEFen
dc.subject.stwHaushaltseinkommenen
dc.subject.stwKapitalertragen
dc.subject.stwEinkommensverteilungen
dc.subject.stwDekompositionsverfahrenen
dc.subject.stwGroßbritannienen
dc.subject.stwDeutschlanden
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleThe impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn568962990en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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