Sources

Overall Income Inequality: Gini coefficient - Equivalised disposable household income ★

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Gini coefficient of equivalised (modified OECD scale) disposable household income for all persons in private households for Germany (West Germany from 1984 to 1990) from SOEPmonitor data: linked back at 1983 to data for West Germany, calculated by Becker (1997) and Hauser and Becker (2001) based on the EVS (Income and Expenditure Survey).

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Top Income Shares: Share of top 1% - Pre-tax national income (equal-split adult) ★

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Pre-tax national income share held by top percentile. A single source series is used, taken from WID.world. Data relates to individuals over age 20, assuming resources are split equally within couples.

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Top Income Shares: Share of top 1% - Pre-tax fiscal income (tax units, excluding capital gains) ★

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Pre-tax fiscal income share held by top percentile. A single source series is used, taken from WID.world. Data relates to tax units as defined by national fiscal administrations to measure personal income taxes.

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Top Income Shares: Share of top 1% - Post-tax national income (equal-split adult) ★

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Post-tax national income share held by top percentile. A single source series is used, taken from WID.world. Data relates to individuals over age 20, assuming resources are split equally within couples.

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Poverty: Share below 60% median - Equivalised disposable household income ★

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Percentage of individuals in households with equivalised (modified OECD scale) disposable income below 60 per cent of the median for all persons in private households for Germany (West Germany from 1984 to 1990) from SOEPmonitor data; linked back at 1983 to data on percentage of individuals in households with equivalised (original OECD scale) disposable household income below 50 per cent of the mean for all persons of German nationality in West Germany from Becker (1997).

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Earnings Dispersion: Top decile as % median - Gross individual earnings ★

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Earnings at top decile as percentage of median earnings from OECD: linked back at 1995 to series based on the Gehalts- und Lohnstrukturerhebung (GLE) employers survey, as presented in Atkinson (2008); this data relates to gross monthly wages and salaries of all full-time workers in West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and in all of Germany in 1995.

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Wealth Inequality: Share of top 1% - Household net wealth

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Share of net wealth held by the top 1%. A single source series is used, taken from Albers, Bartels and Schularick (2020), based on wealth tax statistics from the Statistical Office and its predecessors until 1989, then EVS (Income and Expenditure Survey) data until 2018.

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Wealth Inequality: Gini coefficient - Per capita net wealth

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Gini coefficient of per capita net wealth, from Frick, Grabka and Hauser (2010) – with updated estimates from 2002 provided directly by Markus Grabka. Estimates based on SOEP survey data are linked in 2002-3 to an earlier series based on EVS survey data. This is linked back again at 1998 to the earlier EVS series relating to West Germany.

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