Einkommensverteilung und gesamtwirtschaftliche Ent

Authors: Jan Goebel Carsten Schröder Moritz DrechselGrau Andreas Peichl Kai Daniel Schmid

Publish Date: 2015/12/22

Volume: 95, Issue: 12, Pages: 861-867

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Abstract

In der Oktoberausgabe 2015 veröffentlichte der Wirtschaftsdienst einen Aufsatz zu „Einkommensverteilung und gesamtwirtschaftliche Entwicklung in Deutschland Spitzeneinkommen–ein MissingLink“ Die Autoren des vorliegenden Beitrags setzen sich kritisch damit auseinander im Anschluss erläutern Moritz DrechselGrau Andreas Peichl und Kai Daniel Schmid ihren Standpunkt in einer ErwiderungJan Goebel and Carsten Schröder reply to the proposal of Andreas Peichl et al to combine the Taxpayer Panel with the German Socioeconomic Panel They concede that both measures help to understand the development of income distribution But problems may occur because the different concepts are only partially congruent Peichl et al also think that complementary analyses of survey data and administrative data offer a better understanding of the evolution of income distribution in Germany as these provide different information They argue that mutual crosschecking of both kinds of data as well as plausibility considerations in the macroeconomic context can partly offset imperfect congruency when assessing inequality trends Linking both kinds of data will further reduce uncertainty about the evolution of income distribution and improve research conditions and policy advice in Germany

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