Top incomes in Germany, 1871-2014

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Charlotte Bartels, German Institute for Economic Research

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Project Citation: 

Bartels, Charlotte. Top incomes in Germany, 1871-2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-07-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/E110664V1

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This is the replication package for the publication "Top incomes in Germany, 1871-2014". The study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from industrialization to the present. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after WWI and during the hyperinflation years of the 1920s, then increased rapidly throughout the Nazi period beginning in the 1930s. Following the end of WWII, German top income shares returned to 1920s levels. The German pattern stands in contrast to developments in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, where WWII brought a sizeable and lasting reduction in top income shares. Since the turn of the millennium, income concentration in Germany has been on the rise and is today among the highest in Europe. The capital share is consistently positively associated with income concentration, whereas growth, technological change, trade, unions, and top tax rates are positively associated in some periods and negative in others.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Inequality; Top incomes
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Germany
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1871 – 2014
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 2015 – 2018
Universe:  View help for Universe Total adult population living in Germany
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; aggregate data; census/enumeration data


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